AN N EA 10W Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Imitation Of God, Religious Pluralism
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Jerusalem: not only an important setting for christians, but also jews and muslims, religious pluralism. We are missing something, which is completed by the sacred: question of myth. Pain of human experience usually not explained logically, but rather in mythology. Mythology not to describe past events, but express inner significance and realities unable to be explained logically. M(cid:455)th of (cid:862)sa(cid:272)red geograph(cid:455)(cid:863) e(cid:454)press truths a(cid:271)out the i(cid:374)terior life. Tories a(cid:271)out jerusale(cid:373) (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:374)ot (cid:271)e dis(cid:373)issed (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause the(cid:455)"re only myths, but rather are important because the(cid:455)"re (cid:373)(cid:455)ths: symbolism. Look at physical phenomena more imaginatively and with emotive associations. Symbol seen as joining the reality that it points to in the premodern world. The sacred experienced not directly usually, but through something else. Early symbol = settings: people sensed the sacred in mountains, groves, temples, cities, experiences separate from but compatible with the physical world. Jerusalem is a symbol of the divine for c, j, m.
