SACRED SYMBOL AS THEOLOGICAL TEXT
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GLORIA L. SCHAAB
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Article
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2009
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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In his book Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism, Mircea Eliade states, 'The symbol, the myth, and the image are the very substance of the spiritual life . . . they may become disguised, mutilated, or degraded, but never extirpated'. 1 However, the function and pervasiveness of symbol