Book contents
- Theology and the Mythic Sensibility
- Reviews
- Theology and the Mythic Sensibility
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Myth/Making
- Part II Myth and Culture
- Chapter 4 The Mythopoieic Roots of Theology
- Chapter 5 Making toward God
- Chapter 6 Mythopoiesis and Difference
- Chapter 7 Taste and See
- Part III All in Christ
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 5 - Making toward God
from Part II - Myth and Culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2024
- Theology and the Mythic Sensibility
- Reviews
- Theology and the Mythic Sensibility
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Myth/Making
- Part II Myth and Culture
- Chapter 4 The Mythopoieic Roots of Theology
- Chapter 5 Making toward God
- Chapter 6 Mythopoiesis and Difference
- Chapter 7 Taste and See
- Part III All in Christ
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter begins by tracing the consequences of the subsuming in modernity of mythos under the auspices of logos, namely the reduction of God to the status of the ‘biggest’ of all beings. The consequences of this for mythopoiesis are many, but chief among them is the foreclosure of the further distancing of plainly theological (that is, mythopoieic) discourse from the realm of the reasonable. By re-examining the relationship between the natural and the supernatural, however, the chapter concludes by pointing towards a way of understanding not only the work of theologians and people of faith as pointing towards the divine, but that all of our mythopoiesis is, in some sense, a making towards God.
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- Theology and the Mythic SensibilityHuman Myth-Making and Divine Creativity, pp. 90 - 112Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024