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Symbolic Language
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- 1Symbolic LanguageContext:
Paul TILLICH - sign and symbol
Support - J. RANDELL, McQuarrie
Criticism - John HICK, Paul EDWARDS
Strengths and weaknesses - 2Paul TILLICH'ground of our being'
God is beyond all human understanding, so we cannot understand him in the literal sense because we can't empirically experience him
So can only use symbolic language. - 3Signssigns are arbitrarily chosen to signify something
- 4SymbolSymbols are ideas that participate in that which they represent
they 'point beyond' themselves - 5Symbol is Scripture'baptism' - has a deeper symbolic meaning.
represents death and resurrection, new life, cleansing from sin, and Christ's example - 6J. RANDELLSymbolic language is non-cognitive
it arouses emotion and causes people to act
you cannot ask if a piece of music is true, just like you cannot ask if a symbol is true - 7McQuarrieconventional symbol - arbitrarily chosen to represent
Intrinsic symbol - a kinship with what it represents (e.g. candle represents the eternal presence of God, as long as it is lit, God is present) - 8Strengths- "they open up levels of reality which were otherwise be closed to us"
- language is symbolic - "God is light"
- they are irreducible - 9Weaknesses- cannot be verified
- Symbols can be adapted or bastardized (i.e. swastika)
- often an interpretive effort - thus cannot rely on them for specific knowledge of God - 10Paul EDWARDS and William ALSTONSymbols are meaningless because they cannot be verified or falsified
"doesn't convey any fact" - 11Symbols changeThe meaning of a symbol could change and be bastardized like the swastika when it became a symbol for Nazi
or
Symbols loose their meaning or importance, such as a the ICTHUS. - 12—
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