MAN'S TWO BIRTHS - ZODIACAL SYMBOLISM IN THE GOSPEL OF LUKE

Three ancient and long-discredited sciences have experienced a surprising renaissance in the modern day: symbolism, alchemy and astrology. The last particularly has come into widespread vogue, but on a basis which still inclines conservative positivism in science, scholarship and orthodox religion to regard it as closely allied with "popular superstition". In its predictive or "fortune-telling" aspect it is generally looked upon askance. But there is another facet of it in which it has pertinence and value that has not been recognized in its modern revival and on which perhaps its most legitimate claim to consideration should properly rest. This is its function as symbolic theology. KUHN