Book Review
Reality . . . What a Concept!
Metaphors We Live By
by George Lakoff and
Mark Johnson
University of Chicago Press, 2003
(256 pages; $14.00, paperback)
reviewed by Peter J. Leithart
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Peter J. Leithart is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and the president of Trinity House Institute for Biblical, Liturgical & Cultural Studies in Birmingham, Alabama. His many books include Defending Constantine (InterVarsity), Between Babel and Beast (Cascade), and, most recently, Gratitude: An Intellectual History (Baylor University Press). His weblog can be found at www.leithart.com. He is a contributing editor of Touchstone.
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