Symbolism in religion and literature.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, G. Braziller, 1960.Description: 253 p. 22 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 246
LOC classification:
  • BL 600 .M35 1960
Contents:
Contents:
The significance of symbols / Rollo May -- The nature of the symbol / Erich Kahler -- The religious symbol / Paul Tillich -- The cross:social trauma or redemption / Amos N. Wilder -- On the first three chapters of Genesis / Kenneth Burke -- The pattern of religious organization in the United States / Talcott Parsons -- The broken center: a definition of the crisis of values in modern literature / Nathan A. Scott, Jr. -- The sense of poetry: Shakespeare's "The phoenix and the turtle" / I.A. Richards -- The representation of nature in contemporary physics / Werner Heisenberg -- Uses of symbolism / A.N. Whitehead.
Item type: Books
Holdings
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Judith Thomas Library General Stacks BKS BL 600 .M35 1960 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA009962 Available AUA009962

Six of the nine "essays ... were originally published in Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in the issue devoted to 'Symbolism in religion and literature' (vol. 87, no. 3)"

Contents:

The significance of symbols / Rollo May --
The nature of the symbol / Erich Kahler --
The religious symbol / Paul Tillich --
The cross:social trauma or redemption / Amos N. Wilder --
On the first three chapters of Genesis / Kenneth Burke --
The pattern of religious organization in the United States / Talcott Parsons --
The broken center: a definition of the crisis of values in modern literature / Nathan A. Scott, Jr. --
The sense of poetry: Shakespeare's "The phoenix and the turtle" / I.A. Richards --
The representation of nature in contemporary physics / Werner Heisenberg --
Uses of symbolism / A.N. Whitehead.