Sentences with phrase «events than the myth»

In other words, it's less about the actual events than the myth that is built up around them, especially for the majority of people who will never set foot inside.

Not exact matches

Ogden stated in Christ Without Myth (1961) that he intended to express the «objective» reality of the event Jesus Christ more adequately than Bultmann had succeeded in doing, but that this would have to come in a later work.17 His fullest treatment of the problem thus far appeared in 1963 in his essay, «What Sense Does it Make to Say, «God Acts in History»»?

If you don't believe the events in the Gospels really happened, you should have better reasons than the (questionable) idea that since the Gospels contain parallels to ancient myths, the Gospels must also be myths.

Thus myth to Frankfort is primarily important as a form of thought rather than as an embodiment of concrete events.

The French Revolution of 1789, perhaps more than any other event in recent history, has implanted in western consciousness the myth of the heroic popular revolt against oppressive authority.

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

Of the kernel of history which transcends the myth, Bultmann can speak only in negative terms: «Our interest in the events of his life, and above all in the cross, is more than an academic concern with the history of the past.

Bultmann has asked the question whether salvation history, in its formal aspect at any rate, is to be regarded as myth rather than history, and as myth not only in its outer framework but in its essential core, in the event of Jesus Christ.

However, these complications are rare and the risk of these events is comparatively lower while on the pill than during pregnancy.This is not to say that all or most women should be on the pill, but it is to say that there are many myths about the pill that ought to be reconsidered.

If you feel that way in a book, you are trapped in a myth somewhere, more than likely Book as Event.