Broken Symbols? Response to F. Leron Shults

Abstract. In the preceding article in this section, F. LeRon Shults responds to our article preceding his, “Semiotics as a Metaphysical Framework for Christian Theology.” We respond here to his criticisms of our proposal. We discuss his concerns about the concept of “vestiges of the Trinity in creat...

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Authors: Robinson, Andrew 1964- (Author) ; Southgate, Christopher 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- 2010
In: Zygon
Year: 2010, Volume: 45, Issue: 3, Pages: 733-738
Further subjects:B vestiges of the Trinity
B Incarnation
B Trinity
B qualisign
B Creation
B Symbol
B C. S. Peirce
B Semiotics
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Summary:Abstract. In the preceding article in this section, F. LeRon Shults responds to our article preceding his, “Semiotics as a Metaphysical Framework for Christian Theology.” We respond here to his criticisms of our proposal. We discuss his concerns about the concept of “vestiges of the Trinity in creation” and argue that this does not undermine the absolute ontological difference between God and creation. We offer a clarification of our idea that the Incarnation may be understood, in terms of Peirce's taxonomy of signs, as a qualisign of God's being. Finally, we discuss the idea that all symbols “break on the infinite.”
ISSN:1467-9744
Contains:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01124.x