How Symbols Speak

Source: The Complete Library of Christian Worship, Robert E. Webber, General Editor

Symbols, including liturgical symbols, communicate to us on many levels. This article explores the profound nature of symbolic communication, based on the approach of scholar Paul Ricoeur, and offers suggestions for how liturgical symbols can be made to speak more clearly and profoundly.

The whole program of the liturgical revival may be summed up with the apt phrase used by Robert Hovda in a variety of places: "Let the symbols speak. " We long for our communities to be clear about the great...

 

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