[ 1897A. Sabatier Esquisse d'une Philosophie de la Réligion iii. vii. 406En combinant les vues de M. Ménégoz et les miennes qui se complètent en effet réciproquement, on a pu baptiser la conception nouvelle de symbolo⁓fidéisme. ]
1903 Hibbert Jrnl. I. 555In these two principles,— the symbolic, pictorial character of all the concepts and terms of religion, and the distinction just mentioned between faith and belief,—we have the germs of Symbolo⁓fideism. The name appears to have been given to the school by an anonymous writer in 1894.
1921 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics XII. 151Symbolofideism is the name given to the theology taught in the second half of the 19th cent. at the Protestant Faculty of Paris by Professors Auguste Sabatier and Eugène Ménégoz.
1949 E. L. Mascall Existence & Analogy v. 93Modern Roman Catholic theologians..under the stress of their controversy with symbolo-fideists and modernists of various kinds, have discussed the doctrine of analogy at great length.
1970 Nature 4 Apr. 47/2 Such a hornet's nest of symbols, wiggly lines,..and the like, that the reader, despairing of ever reaching the goodies obscured by the fog of symbolomania, may come to think that this new approach to mathematics is not worth while.
symbolo-
combining form
Etymology: Greek symbolon
: sign : symbol
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