myth
myth In modern parlance, a myth is a
legend or fairy-story unbelievable and untrue but nevertheless disseminated. It has a more technical meaning in biblical studies and covers those stories or narratives which describe the actions of the other-worldly in terms of this world, in both OT and NT. In Gen. the
Creation and the
Fall are myths, and are markedly similar to the creation stories of Israel's Near Eastern neighbours. It was a mistake of expositors and preachers in the past to treat these chapters as ‘historical’ accounts of the origin of the universe and the cause of original
sin. There are also myths in OT (e.g. Isa. 25: 7) and NT (e.g. Matt. 24: 31) to express beliefs about the end of the world and God's judgement. Some theologians use the term ‘myth’ to denote a way of expressing intimations of supernatural significance; they are rendered intelligible by means of familiar terms derived from valid natural experience.
Much of the discussion in the second half of the 20th cent. about biblical myths was prompted by
Bultmann's demythologization enterprise.
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A Letter from England: John Keble to Benjamin Holmes, 10 July 1833*
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Apostasy," written and delivered by John Keble, has proven to be a document of...never before been published; noted Keble expert, Geoffrey Rowell, has encouraged...Movement and of the heart and mind of John Keble. It is dated 10 July 1833, just...
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"Syren Strains": Victorian women's devotional poetry and John Keble's The Christian Year.
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...glorious meed; Linger not with sin and woe. ---John Keble, "Palm Sunday" (1) John Keble seems to have had very little to say about women...of phrase" (Lectures, 2:201). Echoing Keble, John Henry Newman also considered the question of...
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John Keble and Hurrell Froude in pastoral dialogue.
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...The relationship between John Keble and Hurrell Froude is arguably...and, through Froude, by John Henry Newman. Yet given...reserve" also so central to Keble's convictions, there...significant conversation between John Keble and Hurrell Froude took...
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Christina Rossetti, John Keble, and the Divine gaze.
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...claimed that his sister "thought nothing of Keble as a poet," marginalia in Christina Rossetti...copy of The Christian Year (1827) show Keble's influence on her developing religious...has examined Rossetti's indebtedness to Keble and the Tractarian tradition: Diane D...
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Keble connection. (residence building at Keble College in Oxford, England)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 9/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...student residences for Oxford's Keble College shows what can be achieved...redutivist and uninspring building type. Keble College is an enduring testament to...its social ideals and architecture. John Keble was a founder of the influential Oxford...
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OXBRIDGE:He glanced at my CV, then muttered: `I don't think you'd be happy at Keble'
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/27/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...alternative prospectus). I stayed at Keble for another 36 hours, lodging...Christmas came the inevitable news: Keble didn't want me, though if...Britain. Having suspected that Keble might have also sussed out my...land face up get the call." John Harris attended Queen's College...
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Obituary: Professor Keble Sykes
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/18/1997; ; 700+ words
; When John (later Lord) Fulton moved from being a...J.E. Coates, attracted to Swansea was Keble Sykes. Before his departure from Oxford...he departed to the United States in 1959 Keble Sykes took up the reins and guided the department...
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Your memories ; Barbara Cadman, of Keble Way, Blurton, remembers seeing Jimi Hendrix perform in Hanley...
Newspaper article from: Sentinel, The (Stoke-on-Trent UK); 1/3/2009; 555 words
; Barbara Cadman, of Keble Way, Blurton, remembers seeing...works for the NHS and lives in Keble Way, Blurton. She remembers...with the Walker Brothers. "John Walker knelt down and touched my hand before the St John Ambulance people took me back...
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My first ; Barbara Cadman (nee Cooper) is a 57-year-old mother and grandmother who works for the NHS and lives in Keble Way, Blurton. She remembers getting a little carried away when she attended her first pop concert in the 1960s.
Newspaper article from: Sentinel, The (Stoke-on-Trent UK); 11/29/2008; 562 words
; ...grandmother who works for the NHS and lives in Keble Way, Blurton. She remembers getting a little...to the stage with the Walker Brothers. "John Walker knelt down and touched my hand before the St John Ambulance people took me back to my seat...
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Removing the veil: Newman as a literary artist
Magazine article from: Renascence; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...story about the reaction of John Keble to the news that by 1845...to the Church of Rome. Keble was regarded by Newman...way continues to shroud John Henry Newman even today. To illustrate, suppose that Keble had had a bust of Milton...
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Keble, John
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Keble, John (1792–1866). Credited with...movement with his Assize Sermon of 1833, Keble spent most of his life as a country parson...Irish Church Temporalities Act, which to Keble represented a sacrilegious interference...
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John Keble
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John Keble , 1792-1866, English clergyman and poet. His career (1807-11) at...1831-41). Alarmed at the suppression of 10 bishoprics in Ireland, Keble preached (1833) a sermon that he called "National Apostasy." J. H...
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Oxford movement
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Oriel College, Oxford. Prominent among them were John Henry Newman , John Keble , Richard Hurrell Froude, Charles Marriott, and...Communion. Early Years: The Tracts In July of 1833, Keble preached a sermon, On the National Apostasy, which...
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Oxford Movement
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...Anglicanism . Its acknowledged leaders, John Keble, J. H. Newman , and E. B. Pusey , were all Oxford dons, and it is Keble's 1833 sermon on ‘National...the government was, in the words of Keble, intent on making the Church of England...
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tractarianism
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...between 1833 and 1841 by a group of Oxford high churchmen, including Hurrell Froude, Keble , Newman , Pusey , and Isaac Williams. Their context, signalled by Keble's Oxford assize sermon on ‘National Apostasy’ (14 July 1833...
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