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Conor, Dillan and Elliot.
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What is a symbol?
• Pattern or object • May be pictorial, abstract, verbal or active• Cross in Christianity• They embody some aspect of sacred reality• Non rational level• Expresses something about the ultimate• Cognitive statement
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Representational
• Relationship between 2 things• Traffic light • Nothing in the word red means stop
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Presentational
• Presentational symbols help make sense of sacred ideas
• Hinduism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity• Hinduism – darshan • Eastern Orthodox Christianity – icons
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Facilities With Symbols
• Words can not adequately describe God • Partiality negative• ‘God is good’, symbolic rather than literal• Symbols like the arts, work on a deep and
powerful level
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Difficulties With Symbols
• Focus of worship and the object of veneration• Trivialised and their original meaning lost• Out-dated• ‘It is necessary to rediscover the questions to
which the Christian symbols are the answers in a way which is understandable to our time.’
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Verification
• Only meaningful if they can verified by the senses: strong and generally associated with the Viena Circle
• Strong – applied to anything that can be verified conclusively by observation and experience
• Weak – shown to be probable by observation and experience