Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 74 No. 3, 2004.
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Myth and Kerygma: A Question of Demythologization of the Mind Directed Towards Itself
Josip Oslić
; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The author in this article firstly reflects on the connection between myth and the logos, starting from the rationale of the modern age destruction of the myth as an irrational production. Returning from the logos to the myth, he showns that the continuation of modern age thinking is importantly tied to its termination with myth, allowing for the emergence of a new mythology, a mythology of the mind which perceives the whole of reality as its creation and as a result a more serious autonomy. This severance of the mind from the myth simultaneously causes a loss of relation with that unknown, mysterious and unspeakable, which the myth always brings us anew to the threshold. The return from the logos to the myth therefore has the significance of the return of man's original experience from the thought to idea of a personal being. The mediating point in considering the concept kerygma as a proclamation or offer of a better method, demands a decision and responsible acceptance of this message in one's life, without which the kerygma looses its sense of meaning. Finally, it is evident that the number of myths are dependent of the number of proclamations in the great religions, not only is it a way to a meaningful self-realisation of man's existence, but also that horizon, in which the mind itself can be freed from enslavement within itself, and move to the ground of the unknown and secret, whose paradox he can no longer solve in a »logical« way, but only by listening, understanding and doing that which affects it in the unknown and transcendence.
Ključne riječi
myth; logos; kerygma; demythologization; remythologization; myth-logic; Here-Being; Rahner; Luhmann; Bultmann; Heidegger; Moltmann
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25595
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Datum izdavanja:
11.1.2005.
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