Christianity’s “New Myth”: Wolfhart Pannenberg on Demythologizing and Remythologizing the Gospel (November 13, 2018)

Eye-Witness and Myth Eye-witness accounts appear throughout the New Testament, but in the latest (and most dubious) New Testament scriptures distinguish themselves as eye-witnesses reports (ἐπόπται) in antithesis to aberrant myths (μύθοις) (c.f. 1 Tim 1:4, 4:7, 2 Tim 4:4, Tit 1:14, 2 Pet 1:16). In Wolfhart Pannenberg's essay "Myth in Biblical […]

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Christmas: A reappropriation of the birth of the sun god Mithra (feat. Wolfhart Pannenberg) (November 2, 2018)

In Wolfhart Pannenberg's essay "Myth in the Biblical and Christian tradition", he explains that Christianity has reappropriated pagan and Jewish myths throughout history in order to demythologize them.  Many evangelicals today try to prove that Jesus was born on December 25th, and deny that Christmas has any pagan origin or identification […]

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