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Chapter 5 - Making toward God

from Part II - Myth and Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2024

Andrew Shamel
Andrew Shamel
Affiliation:
Lincoln College, Oxford
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This chapter begins by tracing the consequences of the subsuming in modernity of mythos under the auspices of logos, namely the reduction of God to the status of the ‘biggest’ of all beings. The consequences of this for mythopoiesis are many, but chief among them is the foreclosure of the further distancing of plainly theological (that is, mythopoieic) discourse from the realm of the reasonable. By re-examining the relationship between the natural and the supernatural, however, the chapter concludes by pointing towards a way of understanding not only the work of theologians and people of faith as pointing towards the divine, but that all of our mythopoiesis is, in some sense, a making towards God.

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OntologyBarthJohn MilbankAugustineGraham Ward
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Theology and the Mythic Sensibility
Human Myth-Making and Divine Creativity
 , pp. 90 - 112
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Making toward God
  • Andrew Shamel, Lincoln College, Oxford
  • Book: Theology and the Mythic Sensibility
  • Online publication: 07 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009542593.008
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  • Making toward God
  • Andrew Shamel, Lincoln College, Oxford
  • Book: Theology and the Mythic Sensibility
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  • Making toward God
  • Andrew Shamel, Lincoln College, Oxford
  • Book: Theology and the Mythic Sensibility
  • Online publication: 07 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009542593.008
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