allows an author to say a thing that can be said in no other way). Janet Soskice in Metaphor and Religious Language (1985) argues that a cautious theological realism best explains how language is used when speaking about God. Thus, for example, to speak of God as father or warrior or in mother imagery is truly to say something about the nature of God, however tentative and inadequate that language may be in saying something comprehensive about God. . The transposition (“change of place”)