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demythologization

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  • noun the restatement of a message (as a religious one) in rational terms.

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  • noun The act of demythologizing, or something demythologized.
  • noun The removal of mythological elements from something, especially from religious writing.

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  • noun the restatement of a message (as a religious one) in rational terms

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Examples

  • But if he had studied the matter a little more closely he would have learned that the humanities are remnants of points of view he himself calls "obsolescent," that they changed since the scientific revolution, that by now most of them have been voided of ontological content (in theology this is called demythologization) and can therefore no longer be used as critics of the scientific enterprise.

    Science and Society: An Exchange Feyerabend, Paul 1979

  • The "demythologization" project as Butlmann applied it for example in his Gifford lectures suffers most of all I think because of a sort of scientism that pervades it.

    The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6 James F. McGrath 2010

  • This novella is a deliberate attempt at what Robert M. Price calls "demythologization," but which I think is better expressed as "remythologization" of the Cthulhu Mythos.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

  • Okay, fair enough, but his "demythologization" is more aggressive even than that.

    IN SEARCH OF FRANKENSTEIN by Radu Florescu (Warner 1976) 2006

  • Okay, fair enough, but his "demythologization" is more aggressive even than that.

    Archive 2006-10-08 2006

  • I assume you are saying that you are a Bultmannian in terms of his demythologization project, a project he understood to be necessary from a completely loyal and pastoral point of view as a Lutheran.

    The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6 James F. McGrath 2010

  • If you are not a Bultmannian like the one whose guest we are on these threads, but aligned with Schweitzer, who did not cotton to demythologization, so much the better.

    The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6 James F. McGrath 2010

  • “The government in exile”, says Norbu, “capitalizes upon the western clichés, hampers a demythologization, a critical examination of its own history” (Spiegel, 16/1998). '

    A Buddhist struggles to keep grounded about Tibet and China 2008

  • The demythologization of a man has yet to take place.

    Renegades Of Gor Norman, John 1986

  • Theolog - ically, it demanded a demythologization — or in terms of the day, a “symbolic” approach — not only to the gospel but to the whole Catholic tradition: and that undertaking called for a new language, one which also could be found in German thought.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN RATT 1968

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