Sentences with phrase «etiological myth»

These are merely part of the «etiological myth» to account for death produced by a traditional Christianity influenced by Jewish and Greek cultural concerns, by scholasticism, by the «personal preoccupations» ofAugustine (and Luther), and continued by Anselm, Aquinas and the Council of Trent (p88).

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We can not but note also that the legends of Genesis, like the myths, still bear the signs of frequent etiological influence and motivation.