The Christian life as a family life in John Henry Newman’s Parochial and Plain Sermons
The present paper aims at analyzing the conceptualization of christian life through the conceptual metaphor christian life is family life in John Henry Newman’s Parochial and Plain Sermons. After the presentation of the theory of conceptual metaphor in the light of cognitive semantics, the members of the metaphorical family of the Christian life are introduced. Next, the article analyzes the metaphorical way of a Christian’s growing up, whose goal is a spiritual marriage with Christ.
Key words: conceptualization, family, Christian life, John Henry Newman, sermons