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Myth and Christianity ; an inquiry into the possibility of religion without myth / by Karl Jaspers and Rudolf Bultmann

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: New York : Noonday Press, [1958]Description: 116 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Uniform titles:
  • Frage der Entmythologisierung. English
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Myth and Christianity.DDC classification:
  • 201
LOC classification:
  • BL51 .J353
Contents:
1. Myth and religion / Karl Jaspers -- 2. The case for demythologixation / a reply by Rudolf Bultmann -- 3. The issues clarified / Karl Jaspers -- 4. A letter to Karl Jaspers / Rudolf Bultmann
Subject: One of the world's greatest living philosophers debates with one of the world's foremost theologians an issue of the utmost importance to this generation: Can Christianity survive as a vital force in the modern world? According to Bultmann, leading Protestant existentialist and a practising minister, the traditional religion of the West can best be rescued from skepticism if its "mythological" elements are dropped and only their meanings retained. Jaspers, a found of "Existenz" philosophy, opposes this view and contends that religion without mythology is impossible. In the course of this discussion, a number of basic philosophical, religious and social questions are re-examined, with results that have already had a crucial effect on modern thought
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Translation of Die Frage der Entmythologisierung

1. Myth and religion / Karl Jaspers -- 2. The case for demythologixation / a reply by Rudolf Bultmann -- 3. The issues clarified / Karl Jaspers -- 4. A letter to Karl Jaspers / Rudolf Bultmann

One of the world's greatest living philosophers debates with one of the world's foremost theologians an issue of the utmost importance to this generation: Can Christianity survive as a vital force in the modern world? According to Bultmann, leading Protestant existentialist and a practising minister, the traditional religion of the West can best be rescued from skepticism if its "mythological" elements are dropped and only their meanings retained. Jaspers, a found of "Existenz" philosophy, opposes this view and contends that religion without mythology is impossible. In the course of this discussion, a number of basic philosophical, religious and social questions are re-examined, with results that have already had a crucial effect on modern thought

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