From the very first pages of Genesis, the God of the Old Testament, in truth, demythologized the ancient world, destroying the ancient “gods” who were “lies” and “vanity” (Jer. 16:19-20) and, indeed, nothing (Acts 14:14; 17:23); He put an end to the horrors related in pagan mythology which daily translated into the most cruel barbarism and even human sacrifice. For… Read More Modernism in Our Time
Moi [after luncheon and a dry martini together] … Now to the question. Bultmann, if I recall correctly, was a kind of Heideggerian exegete and New Testament scholar. How does he define the deity after his programmatic demythologization? (sp!)? After he has demythologized the New Testament, what remains of God? What does the word God… Read More Barth and Bultmann on God. A Conversation with Tin Man.
(Originally published in Journal of Anglican Studies, 2005, 3 (2), 181–96 originally titled Doubts about Doubt: “Honest to God” Forty Years On. N.T. Wright.) N.T. Wright. Honest to God, published in 1963, was one of the most public religious bestsellers of the twentieth century. Because it was written by an Anglican bishop it was especially controversial. Yet there are questions… Read More Doubts about Doubt: “Honest to God” by N.T. Wright.
SOURCE: James Finn Cotter. “Pagels’s Paradise Lost,” in The Hudson Review, Vol. XLII, No. 1, Spring, 1989, pp. 165-70. In the epilogue of her … book [Adam, Eve, and the Serpent], Elaine Pagels tells us that, dissatisfied with contemporary Christianity, she turned to the earliest Christians for answers. She assumed that in that era, when the movement was… Read More Elaine Pagels’s Paradise Lost
The objective of the modernist has always been to force ‘God’ into a relative obscurity in order to make more room for the autonomy of man. In order to do so it is necessary for the modernist to utterly reject the traditional understanding of the Incarnation, whereby God consummated His love and revelation of Himself… Read More The “Specious Pretext”. Modernism.
