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If the findings of cognitive linguistics can be summed up in one sentence, it may be this: We think with our bodies. The most fundamental processes of human perception and cognition are grounded in the particularity of our physicality. There is no such thing as mind-body dualism: the mind is embodied. (21)
— Mar 01, 2026 07:09PM
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Shane Williamson
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A theology informed by cognitive linguistics can combine Barbour's critical realism with Lakoff and Johnson's embodied realism. Perhaps such a theological perspective might be called sacramental realism. Here I use the word "sacramental" in the broad sense...to what the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer calls "countless ways by which God uses material things to reach out to us." (50)
— Mar 02, 2026 08:18AM