Tao and Trinity: Notes on Self-Reference and the Unity of Opposites in Philosophy pp 57-81 | Cite as
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Trinity, Eucharist, and Eternity in their mutual interrelationships and in their relationship with theory of signs and symbols, music and the visual arts, tragedy and comedy. Eternity and the three dimensions of time.
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- 4.The mixing of water and wine in the Mass is intended to represent the union of human and divine natures in the person of Christ. See John F. Whealon, The Vatican II Weekday Missal (Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1975), 848.Google Scholar
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