Metaphor as shared wisdom
I read Rhiannon Grantâs article in the December 2018 issue, âA Consideration of Metaphors,â with great interest. She creatively names and describes our âQuaker waysâ using a metaphorical device which I would consider to be the literary version of this term. While doing research for my masterâs thesis on âContemporary Quaker Use of Metaphor,â I found a quotation from a seventeenth century English Friend to be a helpful tool for understanding how the Quakers have traditionally viewed their metaphorical speech. As asserted by Isaac Penington (1616â1678):
the names are but the signification of theđ
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