TRANSFORMING THEOLOGICAL SYMBOLS

F. LeRon Shults; F. LeRon Shults

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01123.x

Abstract

In this essay I explore the need for transforming the Christian theological symbols of the Trinity, Incarnation, and Redemption, which arose in the context of neo‐Platonic metaphysics, in light of late modern, especially Peircean, metaphysics and categories. I engage and attempt to complement the proposal by Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate (in this issue of Zygon) with insights from the Peircean‐inspired philosophical theology of Robert Neville. I argue that their proposal can be strengthened by acknowledging the way in which theological symbols themselves have a transformative (pragmatic) effect as they are “taken” in context and “break” on the Infinite.

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Trinity, Incarnation, C. S. Peirce, Redemption, metaphysics, symbols, emergence

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Shults, F., (2010) “TRANSFORMING THEOLOGICAL SYMBOLS”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 45(3), 713–732. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01123.x

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