The Truth of Broken SymbolsThis book provides a cross-cultural analysis of how religious symbols function from a theological and philosophical perspective. Showing how religious symbols can be true in various qualified senses, Neville presents a theory of religious symbolism in the American pragmatic tradition extending and elaborating Tillich's claim that religious symbols participate in the divine realities to which they refer and yet must be broken in order not to be idolatrous or demonic. The Truth of Broken Symbols offers a theory of religious symbolism treating reference, meaning, and interpretation, and discussing different functions of religious symbols in theological, practical, and devotional contexts. It shows that religious symbols are to be properly understood as true or false and that symbol-systems such as myths, theologies, or liturgical symbols are to be used to engage divine realities while internally exhibiting semiotic structures of reference, meaning, and interpretation. |
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... IMAGINATION AS RELIGIOUS / 47 2.3 . IMAGINATION AS ENGAGEMENT / 59 2.4 . RELIGIOUS SYMBOLIC REFERENCE / 65 Chapter 3 Finite Meaning Infinite 77 3.1 . A COMPLEX MEANING : THE EUCHARIST / 77 3.2 . THE STRUCTURE OF SYMBOLS / 86 3.3 ...
... IMAGINATION AS RELIGIOUS / 47 2.3 . IMAGINATION AS ENGAGEMENT / 59 2.4 . RELIGIOUS SYMBOLIC REFERENCE / 65 Chapter 3 Finite Meaning Infinite 77 3.1 . A COMPLEX MEANING : THE EUCHARIST / 77 3.2 . THE STRUCTURE OF SYMBOLS / 86 3.3 ...
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Contents
What Religious Symbols Do | 1 |
12 SYMBOLS AND SALVATION | 12 |
13 SYMBOLS AND COMMUNITY | 21 |
14 SYMBOLS AND REPRESENTATION | 28 |
Symbols Break on the Infinite | 35 |
22 IMAGINATION AS RELIGIOUS | 47 |
23 IMAGINATION AS ENGAGEMENT | 59 |
24 RELIGIOUS SYMBOLIC REFERENCE | 65 |
51 DEVOTIONAL LIFE AS TRANSFORMATION | 152 |
52 DEVOTIONAL SYMBOLS | 171 |
53 CREATING A TRANSFORMATIVE WORLD | 178 |
54 REPRESENTATION AND FICTION IN DEVOTIONAL SYMBOLS | 193 |
Judging Religious Symbols by Consequences | 201 |
62 RELIGION AMONG THE DIMENSIONS OF LIFE | 213 |
63 RELIGION JUDGED BY OTHER DIMENSIONS | 221 |
64 THE TRUTH AND RELATIVITY OF RELIGIOUS HERMENEUTICS | 230 |
Finite Meaning Infinite | 77 |
32 THE STRUCTURE OF SYMBOLS | 86 |
33 NETWORK MEANING AND CONTENT MEANING | 95 |
34 MEANING THE INFINITE | 104 |
Taking Symbols in Context | 113 |
42 THEOLOGY | 121 |
43 CULTIC LIFE | 133 |
44 PUBLIC LIFE ORDINARY LIFE AND EXTRAORDINARY LIFE | 144 |
Symbols for Transformation | 151 |
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