Author: Robert C. Neville
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791427415
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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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.
Author: Robert C. Neville
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521003537
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Symbols of Jesus is a systematic theology focusing on what makes Jesus important in Christianity.
Author: Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Publisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
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Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a Persian Sufist is the subject of volume 28 in the Library of Living Philosophers series. As in the other volumes of the series, the subject discusses his life and philosophical development in an intellectual autobiography. This is followed by 33 critical essays by various scholars and Nasr's replies to each of them.
Author: Louis K. Dupré
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802847485
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Symbols of the Sacred gathers four classic essays by Louis Dupr on the role of symbols in our understanding of the sacred and on their fundamental importance to religious consciousness. A leading philosopher of religion, Dupr here discusses the nature of religious symbols, the importance of language for capturing symbolic meaning, the ancient link between art and expressions of the sacred, and the vital relationship between religious symbol and myth. The volume concludes with a powerful reflection on the innate capacity of human minds to grasp the transcendent. Elegantly expressed, conversant with a wide range of thinkers, and marked by a lifetime of reflection on the subject, Symbols of the Sacred offers profound insights into the religious dimension of human life.
Author: Dale Launderville
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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In Homeric Greece, Biblical Israel, and Old Mesopotamia, the king was said to be installed by divine appointment and was regarded as having a special and privileged relationship with God or the gods.
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Author: Stuart E. Rosenbaum
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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American pragmatism is fertile soil for growth in Western religious thought.
Author: Charles William BOASE (Banker, of Dundee.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : Metaphysics
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
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Author: Paul Tillich
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0060937130
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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One of the greatest books ever written on the subject, Dynamics of Faithis a primer in the philosophy of religion. Paul Tillich, a leading theologian of the twentieth century, explores the idea of faith in all its dimensions, while defining the concept in the process. This graceful and accessible volume contains a new introduction by Marion Pauck, Tillich's biographer.