Posted on: May 8th, 2009 Candler on Participation & Representation
In his Theology, Rhetoric, and Manuduction, Peter Candler “defines” participation and representation (p. 34):
By ‘participation’ I refer to an ontological principle by which creatures ‘are’ by analogy to the way in which God ‘is,’ but also the notion that sacra doctrina is a kind of scientia which participates in God’s knowledge of himself, and is therefore not something superadded to God.
And again,
Representation … is a matter of immediate apprehension by virtue of an exterior sign, and is removed from the variables of time and human communities. As such, representation is the fundamental philosophical and theological strategy of modernity.
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