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This model of metaphorical dialectics explains how novel, hybrid significations are formed de novo. Theology, as alluded to at the beginning of this chapter, is inherently hybrid – a nexus of multiple narratives and sources continually reacting to changes in the environment, as well as its inherited tradition of interpretation. A thoroughly pluralistic theology, like metaphor, is also a tense nexus of intrinsic and extrinsic sources redescribing each other according to the inner dialectic of metaphorical predication, but also guided by the frame in which theologizing takes place. Importantly, the dialectics of metaphor succeed in revealing the frame since metaphor begins in semantic rupture. This disruption allows us to see the otherwise hidden frame, making a hybrid, pluralistic theology potentially a corrective for negative pressures underlying the frame. What I am suggesting is that the dynamics of consciously hybrid, pluralistic theology can be leveraged for revelatory and liberative ends. Not only can this happen; I argue that it should happen. Pluralistic theology here makes possible a prophetic voice, illuminating injustice and revealing the scars and cracks long hidden under the carapace of doctrine and accepted religious tradition.