Sentences with phrase «mythical world view»

He approaches the problem from a purely academic standpoint and asks, How far does the essential message of the gospel confront us --(1) In the framework of a mythical world view conditioned by its environment and therefore irrelevant to the modern world?

The problem, he says, is that the New Testament presents the events of our redemption in terms of the mythical world view of classical antiquity.

The difference is not quite clear, for Bultmann had originally defined the mythical world view as one which left room for extra — and supramundane interventions, in contrast to the modern world view which postulates a rigid, closed system of cause and effect.

But, thinks Bultmann, that is not mythology in the traditional sense, not the kind of mythology which has become antiquated with the decay of the mythical world view.

From a logical point of view, however, these two conceptions are not mutually exclusive, especially if Bultmann is right in regarding the true sense of myth as the disclosure of the «self - understanding of man», and the objectivizing imagery with its implied mythical world view the inadequate means for the expression of that sense.

And that applies not only to the central event of salvation, to Christ himself, but also what we call the mythical world view which provides the framework of the picture.

Not exact matches

This subservience and freedom apply to each separate book and to the document as a whole, to every chapter and every sentence, to the earliest Christian confession and the earliest Christian world view, to mythical miracle and historical event.

At the same time it is impossible to revive an obsolete view of the world by a mere fiat, and certainly not a mythical view.

Can Christian preaching expect modern man to accept the mythical view of the world as true?

To this extent the kerygma is incredible to modern man, for he is convinced that the mythical view of the world is obsolete.

This then is the mythical view of the world which the New Testament presupposes when it presents the event of redemption which is the subject of its preaching.

(We may add that if «mythological» means whatever can not be reconciled with the modern scientific view of the world with its closed system of cause and effect, then an eschatological act of God is either no act at all or else it is mythical in the above sense of that word.)

The mythical view of the world must be accepted or rejected in its entirety.

All this is undeniably mythological, and Bultmann thinks it is senseless and impracticable to foist this mythical view of the world on modern man, whose thinking is «shaped for good or ill by modern science».

It would be senseless, because there is nothing specifically Christian in the mythical view of the world as such.

(It may of course be argued that there are people alive to - day whose confidence in the traditional scientific view of the world has been shaken, and others who are primitive enough to qualify for an age of mythical thought.

And if such is the case, then Bultmann's demand that we should replace the mythical view of the world by a scientific one falls to the ground.

For faith needs to be emancipated from its association with every world view expressed in objective terms, whether it be a mythical or a scientific one.