Birth: August 20, 1884 Death: July 30, 1976
Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge this….
Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from th….
The mythology of the New Testament, also, is not to be questioned with respect to the content of its objectifying representations but with respect to….
Man is always on the way..
There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart ….
It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on whic….
The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk about a ….
It is impossible to repristinate a past world picture by sheer resolve, especially a mythical world picture, now that all of our thinking is irrevoca….
Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms..
We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern medical and clinical means and at the same time beli….