Sentences with phrase «symbols in a particular situation»

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Paul Tillich defined this approach with particular clarity (and therefore in extreme form) in his «method of correlation»: «systematic theology proceeds in the following way: it makes an analysis of the human situation out of which the existential questions arise, and it demonstrates that the symbols used in the Christian message are the answers to these questions.»

It follows that he who understands a symbol not only «opens out» to the objective world, but at the same time succeeds in emerging from his particular situation and in attaining a comprehension of the universal.