1st Edition
Christology and Myth in the New Testament An Inquiry into the Character, Extent and Interpretation of the Mythological Element in New Testament Christology
By Geraint Vaughan Jones
Copyright 1956
298 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
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Christology and Myth in the New Testament (1956) enquires into the extent and origin of the ‘mythological’ language and ideas underlying the Christology of the New Testament. It examines the ‘demythologizing’ principles, and refers to the ‘existential’ method of reinterpreting those New Testament concepts which are bound up with Hellenistic thought-forms and the cosmology of the ancient world... Read more
Part 1. Prolegomena 1. Myth and Gospel 2. History, Geschichte, and Myth Part 2. The Problem of the Mythological 3. The Substance of the Myth 4. The Interpretation of the Myth Part 3. Kyrios Christos 5. Kyrios Christos 6. The Lordship of Jesus and Creation: Christ and Creation 7. The Lordship of Jesus and Creation: Christ in Creation 8. The Lordship of Jesus and the New Testament Mythology of Evil Part 4. The Myth as Logos 9. Myth and Mythological Thinking 10. The Myth as Archetype 11. The Myth as Norm
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Geraint Vaughan Jones
