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BROKEN SYMBOLS? RESPONSE TO F. LERON SHULTS
Author(s) -
Robinson Andrew,
Southgate Christopher
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01124.x
Subject(s) - incarnation , semiotics , metaphysics , epistemology , philosophy , absolute (philosophy) , taxonomy (biology) , theology , botany , biology
. 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.”