The Hermeneutics of the Symbol

Abstract

“A philosophy of revolution believes that through the dialectics of negation a new social order will be created. The revolutionary act is essentially negative. One hopes that from it a new social order will, of necessity, come into being.… But the symbol of the People of God does not derive its meaning from a vision of history as a process of successive resolutions of its contradictions through revolutions. It is therefore impossible to extract from the Bible any theology of revolution.”