Definitions

Symbol, from the Greek σύμβολον symbolon, from a verb meaning ‘throw together, put together’

Symbolism is not about abstraction. “what makes a symbol is the naturality of the signifier. The symbol is a thing, a being, or an event endowed with a semantic property, a reality of the world of common experience in which is presentified a transcendent intelligible. It is that, or it is nothing.” ¹

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The Symbol of symbols

“The ‘Son of Man’ designates the quintessence of human reality, the manifestation of what is most interior and most real in it, that is to say its deiformity, its quality as God-symbol. And therefore the Son of Man is the symbol of symbols” ³

Eph 1:9-10

God has purposed to bring all things (in heaven and on earth) together in Christ

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Footnotes

1. Borella, Jean (2016). The Crisis of Religious Symbolism. p385 ↩

2. Pageau, Matthieu (2018). The Language of Creation. ch7 ↩

3. Borella, Jean (2016). The Crisis of Religious Symbolism. p404 ↩