The Angels and the Easter Bunny: Karl Barth on the difference between good saga and bad (May 12, 2022)

How are the angels in the Bible different than the Easter Bunny in traditional folklore? In Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics III/3, paragraph §51 "The Kingdom of Heaven, The Ambassadors of God, and their Opponents", he answers that "the angels and the March Hare are two different things" [1] but it […]

Related: CD III/3, Church Dogmatics III/3, D.F. Strauss, David Friedrich Strauss, David Strauss, Demythologizing, easter bunny, geschichte, good saga, historie, Karl Barth, Myth, Rudolf Bultmann, Saga

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 […]

Related: Basic Questions in Theology Vol 3, Christianity's New Myth, Demythologization, Demythologizing, Ernst Käsemann, New Myth, Remythologizing, Rudolf Bultmann, The Idea of God and Human Freedom, Wolfhart Pannenberg