Métaphore et puritanisme Le cas de John Cotton, ministre de l’Église de Boston, Massachusetts, de 1633 à 1652

The use of metaphor in the work of Cotton does not separate the material image of the figure from its meaning. In his exegeses of biblical metaphors, Cotton is careful not to throw the ball of the perceptible vehicle, nor only consider the imaginary or intelligible tenor. Instead, he maintains both and, amplifying the first in the process of displaying the second, allows the spiritual meaning to reveal itself in a way which would appeal to the antinomian sensibility of New England.