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In 1999, cognitive linguists George Lakoff and Mark Johnson published Philosophy in the Flesh, the book that inspires John Sanders’ new title. Lakoff and Johnson argue that from the time one is born, human beings have bodily experiences of their environments that involve repeated patterns. When one is held, for example, one feels warmth. When one moves towards an object, one traverses space and gets closer to it. When one fills a container, the height of the contents gets higher. From these experiences, one develops distinct prereflective templates of understanding and reasoning that Lakoff and Johnson call image schemas, schemas with labels such as ‘source-path-goal’, ‘centre-periphery’ or ‘more is up’. And drawing on these schemas, speakers build conceptual metaphors such as a friendly person is ‘warm’, a relationship is a ‘journey’, and as something increases, it ‘rises’. Metaphors like these shape just about everything one can say about abstract realities like time or life or, as Sanders points out, truth, morality and God. In short, then, cognitive linguistics offers a powerful argument that we should stop saying that thinking is something accomplished by the mind as opposed to the body.

<i>Theology in the Flesh: How Embodiment and Culture Shape the Way We Think about Truth, Morality and God</i> By J. Sanders (2015)