MMW 12 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week1: Burton L. Mack, Religious Studies, Aporia
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Scholars on christian religion studies? l thesis? l. Interpreting the new testament as a quest for contemporary theological relevance is a sophisticated form of mythic thinking. n the attempt to protect the gospel fosters a theory of religion that. Personal religious experience. n existentialist interpretation (leave mystique in place) and eliade"s theory of religion (hardly neutral) are inadequate for redescribing. Christian origin either: entertaining another theory, religion is a social construct understanding of shared cultural factors n the older picture of christian origins according to the gospel story is. To comprehend and justify their investments in a movement that made n aporia (plu: aporiae) the gaps in our systems that need to be social sense to them explained n the unexplainable aporia. Comparison n new testament paradigm of christian origins requires a certain answer. Rectification of categories (rename) and replication: thinking about such a project, changing the subject.