Beyond the Symbol Model
Author: John Robert Stewart
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780791430835
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This interdisciplinary conversation discusses the nature of language.
Author: John Robert Stewart
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780791430835
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This interdisciplinary conversation discusses the nature of language.
Author: M. Jadwiga Swiatecka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1980-07-03
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0521223628
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author examines the meaning and imprecisions of 'symbol' in this interdisciplinary study of nineteenth-century writers.
Author: Joshua Mobley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-11-18
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0567702537
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How do Christians understand the Trinity? How does this understanding relate to other Christian teachings? In conversation with key thinkers in contemporary and classical theology, particularly Henri de Lubac, Karl Rahner, Thomas Aquinas and Augustine, this book argues that a theology of symbols can help us glimpse the mystery of the Trinity and see how this central Christian teaching corresponds to Christian understandings of creation, humanity and the church. A symbol is not here understood as an arbitrary sign, but as a sign that mediates the presence of the symbolized. Joshua Mobley examines the understanding of the Father as “symbolized” in the Son who is the “symbol” of the Father by the “symbolism” of the Spirit, the personal agent of unity between Father and Son. These trinitarian relations then structure creaturely relations to God: God is symbolized in creation, which is a symbol of God by participation in the Son, and the church is symbolism, the union of creation with God by the power of the Spirit. Mobley thus argues that a theology of symbol helps coordinate trinitarian theology with key themes in Christian dogmatics.
Author: Jan-Olav Henriksen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-02-24
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0567705005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Exploring how the climate crisis discloses the symbol deficit in the Christian tradition, this book argues that Christianity is rich in symbols that identify and address the failures of humans and the obstacles that prevent humans from doing well, while positive symbols that can engage people in constructive action seem underdeveloped. Henriksen examines the potential of the Christian tradition to develop symbols that can engage peoples in committed and sustained action to prevent further crisis. To do so, he argues that we need symbols that engage both intellectually and emotionally, and which enhance our perception of belonging in relationships with other humans, be it both in the present and in the future. According to Henriksen, the deficit can only be obliterated if we can develop symbols that have some root or resonance in the Christian tradition, provide concrete and specified guidance of agency, engage people both emotionally and intellectually, and finally open up to visions for a moral agency that provide positive motivations for caring about environmental conditions as a whole.
Author: Saint Louis (Mo.). Board of Aldermen
Publisher:
Published: 1919
Total Pages: 718
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Publisher:
Published: 1904
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13:
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