Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language. (Kenneth Burke)

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

Kenneth Burke

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