Biblespeak

Biblespeak is a euphemism for a kind of discourse which frames concepts and language in highly Biblical terms. As a language like English, may be a vehicle for Biblespeak, the metaphors contained within religious language, and an implied stipulation to Biblical concepts, bears little means for non-religious terms, such as psychological terms, to enter into a discussion in Biblespeak.

Biblespeak is a metaphorical language, because it's heavily dependent on the Bible as a common reference for concepts; often these concepts are spiritual in nature, and find little meaning if translated to secular or psychological terms.

A episode of Star Trek provides an contemporary dramatical example of this phenomenon of problems communicating with a metaphorical language. The Episode, When the Walls Fell, featured Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) and an alien, played by Nathan Lane[?], as stranded together on a planet. The language of the alien, although translated by Picard's "automatic translator" device, was still unintelligible, because the alien's language was highly reliant on common, understood metaphor, to communicate ideas. Eventually Picard was able to grasp the similarities between the alien's references, and story references in literature he was familiar with.