John, here is where you leave me. There is no evidence at all for any religion or myth. None. Not one shred.
So what exactly would I be studying or learning by reading Tillich or Bultman? I am not intersted in anthropology. I am not interested in the many myths mankind has developed over the millenia.
So instead of reading Tillich, Virgil or Dante, I read Donald Johanson and Richard Leaky.
As I have posted before. My favorite quote by Will Durant:
"The persistent effort to subordinate fancy to reason is the dominate quality of the Greek mind
Ergo, Greek literature is modern, or rather contemporary, we find it hard to understand Dante or Milton, but Euripides and Thuscydides are kin to us mentally and belong to our age.
This is because though myths may differ, reason remains the same, and the life of reason, makes brothers of its lovers, in all times, and everywhere."
<<koan, I think you missed the question. He asked how existentialism and theology could be brought together. I offered these two accessible/readable Tillich volumes as an answer. Both published in the 50s. And definitely something my UT crowd were reading, two of which went to Harvard to study under Tillich.
Both Tillich and Bultmann wrote out a Heidegerrian framework. About as deep a form of existential philosophy as one could get. |
