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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2009
This paper has been prompted by recent discussions of what is called ‘Demythologizing’. The movement which marches under that banner is important because its principal aim is to present Christianity to the modern mind in terms which will be more acceptable than those in which it has been traditionally clothed by Bible, Creed and Liturgy; and this is an aim which, whatever we may think of the method adopted for its pursuit, will be shared by all who have the Christian cause at heart. Those who believe the method to be mistaken are among the first to recognize the worth of the aim and feel all the more constrained in consequence to point to what they regard as a more excellent way.
page 236 note 1 Acts xxvii. 35 suggests that St Paul/s action in initiating the meal which was so vital to the safety of all on board, was accompanied by solemn and deliberate ceremony calculated to arouse awe and wonder. One of the purposes of ceremony is to arouse faith through arousing wonder, a fact well illustrated by the closing chapters of the Book of Job. Striking testimony to the interest aroused in the child/s mind of Goethe is given in Poetry and Truth (Eng. trans.).
page 237 note 1 Here, too, Goethe has something relevant to say (op. cit. Part i, Bk. v): ‘I shall have more to say on this point when I reach the epoch of that strange style of poetry, by which it was supposed that the myths of the Old and New Testaments were brought closer to our eyes and heart when completely travestied in modern guise, and endued with the vestments of modern life, whether high or low.’
page 237 note 2 In what follows I have ventured to add to this list ίσταμαι (stand) (Acts vii. 56) and μετ;αβαίνω (cross over), the last-named being of special importance.
page 237 note 3 I am inclined to think that Acts ii. 33 and V. 21 (exalted) should be included in the first division and Phil. ii. 9 (highly exalted) in the second. It is a matter of context.
page 238 note 1 …eorum qui sapientes sæculi putantur, et de rebus physicis disputantes, dicunt se arenas littorum, guttas Oceani, et coelorum spatium, terraeque punctum liquido comprehendisse. Est et in Ecclesia stultiloquium. Si quis coelum putet fornicis more curvatum, Isaiae (vi. 4), quem non intelligit, sermone deceptus: solium quoque in coelis positum, et super eo sedere Deum, et in ritum imperatoris et judicis, angelos stare in circuitu, qui verbis jubentis obtemperent, et in diversa mittantur officia. D. Hieronymi Operum, Tom, . IX, p. 230,Google Scholared. Basel, , 1565 (P.L. XXVI, 640f.).Google Scholar
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