Tillich and Symbols

This is for Tillich's ideas on symbols, for OCR A2 RS

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Are religious Statements are Symbolic and Cognitive
Yes
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What is the one non-cognitive statement you can make about God?
"Being Itself"
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How are religious statements like flags?
They participate in that which it points
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Do symbols have limited lifespans?
Yes
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Why can only symbolic language be used to represent the transcendence?
God is not part of the empirical world
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Symbols open up levels of reality closed to us, in a similar way to...
Art
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Card 2

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What is the one non-cognitive statement you can make about God?

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"Being Itself"

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How are religious statements like flags?

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Card 4

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Do symbols have limited lifespans?

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Card 5

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Why can only symbolic language be used to represent the transcendence?

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