Addressing Concrete Human Experience: C.S. Lewis’s Theology of Language as an Inspiration for Today
Addressing Concrete Human Experience: C.S. Lewis’s Theology of Language as an Inspiration for Today

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to introduce the basic starting points of C.S. Lewis’s theologyof language and offer a possible interconnection of his insights in order to sketch thebackground on which we can search for the language of theology that would be comprehensibleand approachable today. Starting with the introduction of Lewis’s understandingof metaphor in line with the contemporary findings of cognitive linguistics,the paper argues for the view of the figurative nature of human language. In the followingchapters, it shows how such a view is interconnected with Lewis’s approach towardsmyth and the doctrine of the Incarnation to suggest that the contemporary language oftheology should be based on the interconnectedness between the divine and naturalorder, body and spirit, concrete action and abstraction.

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