After Deconstruction

Thanks so much for watching today’s video, I hope you enjoy it. What happens after deconstruction? When people religiously or theologically deconstruct, what they really mean is that the symbols no longer work for them. We’re going to explain how this works and how religious symbols can be both polysemic or repurposed. After deconstruction, the goal should be to discover new symbols that work better or repurpose older symbols in a way that makes better sense in reflecting or expressing the divine/ultimate.

0:00 Intro
1:05 Religious symbols
3:22 Religious symbols & deconstruction
5:26 Religious symbols as polysemic
6:32 The repurposing of religious symbols
8:45 Wrap-up

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I assume that is the job of a theologian: to repurpose the symbols of one faith so they still speak to the culture about the ultimate.