The Hermeneutics of the Symbol
“A philosophy of revolution believes that through the dialectics of negation a new social order will be created. The revolutionary act is essentially negative. One hopes that from it a new social order will, of necessity, come into being.… But the symbol of the People of God does not derive its mean...
| Published in: | Theology today |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1972
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Theology today
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| Summary: | “A philosophy of revolution believes that through the dialectics of negation a new social order will be created. The revolutionary act is essentially negative. One hopes that from it a new social order will, of necessity, come into being.… But the symbol of the People of God does not derive its meaning from a vision of history as a process of successive resolutions of its contradictions through revolutions. It is therefore impossible to extract from the Bible any theology of revolution.” |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057367202900106 |