Mansions of the Spirit: Essays in Literature and ReligionGeorge A. Panichas |
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... Symbols are signs which release the power of imaginative communion . The power of symbols is , I think , fully explicable only if you accept the theory that symbols are something more than mere artifacts of a few human minds . They are ...
... Symbols are signs which release the power of imaginative communion . The power of symbols is , I think , fully explicable only if you accept the theory that symbols are something more than mere artifacts of a few human minds . They are ...
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... symbols is to be understood . And here I would suggest that the beliefs of the writer could not help affecting the meaning and content of his symbols and myths and that this is particu- larly true of religious symbols in literature ...
... symbols is to be understood . And here I would suggest that the beliefs of the writer could not help affecting the meaning and content of his symbols and myths and that this is particu- larly true of religious symbols in literature ...
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... symbols and myths . The Babylonian creation story , for example , presents a luxuriant polytheism , whereas the biblical creation is monotheistic in its outlook . Similarity amid radical differences of theological outlook has been shown ...
... symbols and myths . The Babylonian creation story , for example , presents a luxuriant polytheism , whereas the biblical creation is monotheistic in its outlook . Similarity amid radical differences of theological outlook has been shown ...
Contents
Preface | 11 |
PART I | 28 |
HYATT H WAGGONER Point of View in Ameri | 47 |
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