The whole Bible is a great mosaic of metaphor - which always subverts conventional perceptions to bring new ones to birth.
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There's using Christ's Resurrection as a metaphor for bringing new things to birth. Is that all it is?
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Shakespeare was a supreme maker of metaphor which is why it's been said of him that he's only a commentator on the Bible.
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that is why we don't encourage literal interpretations of the Bible. :)
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so it would seem we should encourage the literal, as the first step towards the allegorical, the moral, etc...
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yes that is in the CCC 115-119. That may be a good starting point but of course not the end itself.
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not the end, certainly! But still to be held in tension with the other senses.
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yes i agree to this.
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Many think the Resurrection is a metaphor or that when Jesus said, "This is my Body," he was speaking symbolically.
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Also much that isn't metaphor that some mistakenly think is, like John 6. Faithfulness to Tradition clarifies the difference
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Scripture includes examples of inspired disruptions of rigidity. Acts 15 is a story of a discerning Church vs. literalism.
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Amen to that!
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the lowest denominator is literalism
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laxity and rigidity both criticized by +Francis. Rigidity seems closely linked w scrupulosity, laxity w indifference to sin.
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