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Existence of God (Synthetic Statement Of Philosophical Theology) (4)
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Existence of God (Synthetic Statement Of Philosophical Theology) (4)
Symbol and History
Because the symbol is related to history, it can't be changed by the free will of anyone. Because it has been seared with a hot iron in the mind of a myriad of the people, this symbol related to history has had everlasting historical meaning through the past, present, and future.
Buddhists contact with the ultimate concern symbolized by the image of Buddha in their mind in a moment when they worship the image of Buddha.
In the same way, Christians can contact with the Ultimate Concern, symbolized by the artistic image of Christ in their mind in a moment when they are moved by the image. The term Christ actually points to a new reality which comes into time and space.
Of course, Jesus was a historical figure, but Christ was not more than a Messianic concern which the carpenter of Nazareth had bared in his mind. The term Christ, as it were, is nothing more than a symbolic meaning.
In other words, Jesus is no more than a historical person. This is the kernel of Tillich's thought of the philosophical theology. In case of the image of Buddha, it means the word of Buddha, and the mind of Buddha means ultimate reality which has transcended a subject and an object.
Symbol and Religion
Symbol has been pointing the thing that has transcended itself, and has been mysteriously attracted man by the power to influence which it has. Accordingly, the expression of religion can not be expressed by anything but a symbol. The religious expression of the picture of the image of the saints in the Temple or the Church and the sacred books of religions have a symbolic character.
All the documents of the miracle and sign, history of Creation, Virgin Birth of Christ, Cross, Resurrection, Ascension, and Parousia are the only symbol.
They are, Tillich said, no more than the sign which expresses an ultimate concern, religious feeling, and holy feeling.
Therefore, he used the terms, sin, heaven, cross, and resurrection, like the conservative theologian, but his theological conceptions of them are quite different from those of the conservative.
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