Mainly on a theoretical (epistemological) level, Lieven Boeve, a theologian, and Kurt Feyaerts, a linguist (K.U. Leuven, Belgium) explore some of the possibilities of a combined theological-linguistic approach to the analysis of metaphor in religious discourse. More specifically, this attempt focuses on the rediscovery of apophatical (or negative) theology in a postmodern context by philosophers and theologians on the one hand and the development of the cognitive semantic theory of metaphor on the other. It appears that both theories have major features in common and that cognitive linguistics can serve as a useful heuristic tool for a theology framed as an 'open narrative', providing better insight into processes of generalised metaphoric mapping, recontextualisation, literalisation, etc. (Lieven Boeve and Kurt Feyaerts)