RELS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Natural Disaster, Quetzalcoatl, Caste System In India

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 200
• Professor: Craig Ginn

Document Summary

Term adopted by rudolf bultmann to describe the means by which the essential truth of the gospel could be made acceptable to modern people. Of necessity, the nt writers were bound to use a cultural framework that made sense in their generation: the question is whether the gospel is still intelligible when that world view is superseded. Faith is the decision to choose the new life in christ; the choice confronts us when the preacher proclaims christ crucified. This new life is described by bultmann in terms of the philosophy of existentialism; the old life of fallenness and alienation is exchanged for the possibility of total integrity and authenticity. Myth" means the description in terms of this world of alleged supernatural events, such as the virgin birth and the resurrection. These stories are not history; they are the means by which facets of the meaning of the cross can be disclosed.