BROKEN SYMBOLS? RESPONSE TO F. LERON SHULTS

Andrew Robinson; Christopher Southgate; Andrew Robinson; Christopher Southgate

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01124.x

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BROKEN SYMBOLS? RESPONSE TO F. LERON SHULTS

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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.”

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Trinity, Incarnation, creation, semiotics, C. S. Peirce, qualisign, vestiges of the Trinity, symbol

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Robinson, A. & Southgate, C., (2010) “BROKEN SYMBOLS? RESPONSE TO F. LERON SHULTS”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 45(3), 733–738. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01124.x

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Hausman, Carl R.1993. Charles S. Peirce's Evolutionary Philosophy. Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press.

McFague, Sallie. 1983. Metaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language. London : SCM Press.

Peirce, Charles S.1992. The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings, Volume 1 (1867–1893). ed. NathanHouser and ChristianKloesel. Bloomington : Indiana Univ. Press.

Robinson, Andrew, and ChristopherSouthgate. 2010. “Semiotics as a Metaphysical Framework for Christian Theology. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 45:689–712.

Shults, F. LeRon. 2009. Personal communication, July.

Shults, F. LeRon. 2010. “Transforming Religious Symbols. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 45:713–32.

Southgate, Christopher, and AndrewRobinson. 2010. “Interpretation and the Origin of Life. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 45:345–60.

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Andrew Robinson (Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science)
Christopher Southgate (Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science)

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Volume 45 • Issue 3 • September 2010

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Pages	733–738

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Published	2010-09-02

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