Youth Without Youth

Sacred Symbol as Theological Text

“…Faire ressortir, par consequent, l'ambivalence de tout 'e´ve´nement', dans le sens que tout 'e´ve´nement' apparemment banal peut re´ve´ler tout un univers de significations transcendantes. 85 Rather than reducing the complexity of the symbol, Eliade suggests, interpretation must restore a sense of its 'totality in complexity' as it links, integrates, and 'offers the mind the possibility of contemplating infinitely complex and inexhaustibly rich worlds of meaning'. Moreover, its ability to hold pairs of opposites in tension without needing to resolve or reconcile their apparent contradictions, expands the capacity of the human imagination with regard to the relationships between the signified and the signifier, conveying Rahner's sense of the unity in a plurality which is often contradictory.…”