Symbolism and Tilich
Religious Language
- Created by: Liv_Houston
- Created on: 18-01-18 23:08
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- SYMBOLISM
- Criticisms
- Open to many different interpretations
- Can be trivialised so the meaning is lost.
- Sabbath Day
- May become outdated.
- 'It is necessary to rediscover the questions..'
- Vagueness, Self-contradictory and Self-referential definitions.
- Tilich
- 'It transcends the capacity of any finite reality to express it directly.'
- 'Expressing God in terms of the Ground of our Being.'
- Tilich
- Howard Hintz
- If every object were blue, blueness would cease to have meaning. The same applies to symbols.
- Religion
- 'I am the Vine'
- 'The Lord is my Shepherd'
- Tilich
- 'It transcends the capacity of any finite reality to express it directly.'
- 'Expressing God in terms of the Ground of our Being.'
- Function
- 'Identifies a concept as well as participating in it'
- Non-Cognitive
- Interpreted literally
- Communicate beyond the factual and objective
- Interpreted literally
- Pictures, objects, actions or words
- All knowledge of God has symbolic character
- Criticisms
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