Robert Cummings Neville The Truth of Broken Symbols (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Truth of Broken SymbolsCondition: NewEAN: 9780791427422ISBN: 9780791427422Publisher: State University of New York PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/02/1995Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 481gAuthor: Robert Cummings NevilleLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0791427420Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Language & ReferenceBook Series: SUNY series in Religious StudiesTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityType: TextbookDescription: This 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.Release Year: 1995 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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