The Christian Century, July 30th, 1997
Many religious institutions seem in danger of replacing incarnational language, or language of the senses, with a type of abstract language that fails to engage the senses. For example the biblical phrase 'All flesh is grass' has been become 'All people are grass' in the New Revised Standard Version.
The most pressing language issue for me in worship today is not that of "inclusive language," but whether we will have any language, language in its root sense, based on that lowly human organ, the tongue. Incarnational language, in the sense that it considers the body -- the sound and mouth-feel...
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