Language as Symbol
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- Language as symbol
- Paul Tillich
- Alternative way to speak about God is use symbols
- Signs do not participate in what they symbolise
- Symbols on the other hand are powerful
- Take part in the power and the meaning of what they symbolise
- Symbols on the other hand are powerful
- Believe's religious language operates as a symbol
- "The language of faith is the language of symbols"
- " Religious language ... symbolic way of pointing towards the ultimate reality
- The Vision of God
- The Ground of Being
- Everything else depends for it's being
- The Ground of Being
- The Vision of God
- Makes distinction between signs and symbols
- Paul Tillich
- Alternative way to speak about God is use symbols
- Signs do not participate in what they symbolise
- Symbols on the other hand are powerful
- Take part in the power and the meaning of what they symbolise
- Symbols on the other hand are powerful
- Believe's religious language operates as a symbol
- "The language of faith is the language of symbols"
- " Religious language ... symbolic way of pointing towards the ultimate reality
- The Vision of God
- The Ground of Being
- Everything else depends for it's being
- The Ground of Being
- The Vision of God
- Paul Tillich
- Cross
- Does not only represent Christianity
- Makes powerful statement
- Jesus the Lamb of God
- Death as pure sacrifice
- Reminds Christian's of Sacrificial death of Jesus
- reminds them of their beliefs about God
- Four main functions of symbols
- 1. Point to something beyond themselves
- 2. They participate in that to which they point
- 3. Symbols open up levels of reality that otherwise are closed to us
- 4.They open up levels and dimensions of the soul that correspond to those levels of reality
- symbolic language
- Like Poetry/Art piece
- Poetry/picture
- can give new view of life
- offer new meaning
- Find it difficult to explain that meaning
- J.H Randall
- Find it difficult to explain that meaning
- Developed this point
- Argued they open the divine
- Evaluation
- Hick criticised Tillich's idea that symbols " Participate..."
- Says it is not clear
- Some Christians would argue religious language is lieteral
- Symbolic language can be forgotten if ooverused
- It is necessary to rediscover the questions to which the Christian symbols are the answers in a way which is understandable in our time
- Macquarrie criticised Tillich's distinction between signs and symbols
- Macquarrie suggested Conventional and intrinsic symbols instead
- Hick criticised Tillich's idea that symbols " Participate..."
- Paul Tillich
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