Posted on 12/28/2017 8:51:39 AM PST by x1stcav
I have 1,000 words to convince you to celebrate Christmasor, as someone on Facebook recently put it, The Jesus Myth. Right.
I could try to convince you that Christmas is a fully Christian celebration, having nothing to do with supposed appropriations of pagan festivals, but that presumes that you care about celebrating Christmas as Christian in the first place. What I need to do is convince you that the myth matters as a myth.
This is not a comfortable thought for many modern Christians, accustomed as we are to the accusation that we worship a fairy-tale sky god. If you are a Protestant, you can blame Rudolf Bultmann (d. 1976), the great German Biblical scholar famous for attempting to de-mythologize the New Testament. If you are a Catholic, you can still blame the Protestants; they have been accusing Catholics of superstition since the year dot of the sixteenth-century Reform.
And, indeed, if you read the New Testament carefully, it is hard not to argue that Bultmann may have had a point.
(Excerpt) Read more at dangerous.com ...
Believing is Seeing, Seeing is Believing.
that’s a lovely piece. thank you for posting.
THX
It’s just another little action in taking back the culture.
Very nice article. Thanks for posting.
Genesis bookmarked.
I googled Jonathan Pageau and his thesis looks extremely interesting. Unfortunately, because of my hearing disability, I can’t (easily or pleasantly) follow videos and podcasts.
Is any of his stuff in plain-old text form on the internet?
Unfortunately most of his work appears via video. His brother, Matthieu Pageau, is currently writing a book on traditional Christian symbology. I'm not sure of the release date.
Thanks for that info. Very kind of you to look it up for me.
You’re very welcome!
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