SIGNS & SYMBOLS Religious Studies 3, Day 5

JOURNAL QUESTION: If you were to get a tattoo (and NO, I’m not encouraging you to), what would you choose to get? Why? [Feel free to draw it out and explain it.]

SIGNS An object that represents some other reality It gets its meaning by reflecting something else It “points” to another reality It has one meaning that is direct and clear

SYMBOLS From the Greek symballein, meaning “to throw together” It has multiple meanings (“overplus of meaning” according to Rahner) It is naturally connected to what it symbolizes It evokes more than just one response from us