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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
When one addresses the issue of myth, truth, and justification in religion, what one says to a great extent depends upon one's understanding of religion and theology. For that reason I want to sketch out my views on such matters as a way of locating or identifying the theme of this paper in what I judge to be its proper setting. Having done that, I will then present my thoughts on myth, truth, and justification in religion in hope that some light will be cast on this rather complex issue and that what I say will provoke fruitful discussion.
page 447 note 1 The two important essays by Clifford Geertz are ‘Religion as a Cultural System’ and ‘Ethos, World View, and the Analysis of Sacred Symbols’. They constitute Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 in his The Interpretation of Cultures (New York: Basic Books, 1973).
page 451 note 1 Beardslee, William A., Literary Criticism of the New Testament (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1976), pp. 4–5.Google Scholar
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page 451 note 3 For an excellent discussion of these matters see especially the ‘Preface’ by Amos N. Wilder in Jesus' Parables and the War of Myths, ed. Breech, James (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982), pp. 15–38.Google Scholar
page 453 note 1 Barbour, Ian G., Myths, Models, and Paradigms (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), p. 44.Google Scholar
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page 457 note l See my articles,‘Philosophic Logic and Theology’, The Miff Review, XXXVI, I ( 1979), 11–23 and ‘The Christian Story of Creation and Redemption: Heilsgeschichte Reconsidered’, Cithara, XXI, I (11 1981), 43–57.
page 457 note 2 This is one of the main arguments of Ian G. Barbour in Myths, Models, and Paradigms.