If so much of Scripture is poetry, song, and apocalypse, why doesn't our theology/teaching/preaching sound like that? We need to recover the mythopoetic resonances of Scripture since that is how we capture the imagination and how God chooses to reveal himself.
Liberals look at the mythopoetic aspects of Scripture, see that they are really there, but conclude the Bible cannot be true.
Conservatives adopt the same historical positivism and essentialism and conclude that these aspects can be literalized and quantified & therefore true.
Conservatives adopt the same historical positivism and essentialism and conclude that these aspects can be literalized and quantified & therefore true.
They both adopt the false binary of myth vs. fact. Myth vs truth.
When in reality, God uses the mythical language to reveal transcendence and uses categories that are effulgent and apocalyptic to move us to awe and reverence before God who transcends our categories.
When in reality, God uses the mythical language to reveal transcendence and uses categories that are effulgent and apocalyptic to move us to awe and reverence before God who transcends our categories.
The hermeneutical & phenomenological *uses* of ANE myths unfold how we see the differences between Scriptural usage and pagan usage of myth.
The contrasts and continuities are instructive as to **how** these mythopoetic realities speak today.
The contrasts and continuities are instructive as to **how** these mythopoetic realities speak today.
"Myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence."
"Hence to remythologize is to interpret myth, that is, to relate the objective representations of the myth to the self-understanding which is both shown and concealed in it."
Paul Ricoeur
Paul Ricoeur
For these reasons I believe an approach that either only looks to redemptive history or biblical theology will ultimately fail in overcoming modernist readings of the text:
https://twitter.com/word_water_wine/status/1252313168241557504
Recovering the mythopoetic is really a recovery of how we view facts, knowledge, and how the imagination plays into faith in God.
Our view of knowledge and faith has been shorn of the vital efficacy of myth and sapiential knowledge/wisdom.
Our view of knowledge and faith has been shorn of the vital efficacy of myth and sapiential knowledge/wisdom.
https://twitter.com/word_water_wine/status/1221186358011551744
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