Tag: Demythologizing

Demythologizing Language Difference in the Academy Establishing Discipline-Based Writing Programs


Free Download Mark Waldo, "Demythologizing Language Difference in the Academy: Establishing Discipline-Based Writing Programs"
English | ISBN: 0805847359 | 2003 | 222 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
In this volume, Mark Waldo argues that writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs should be housed in writing centers and explains an innovative approach to enhancing their effectiveness: focus WAC on the writing agendas of the disciplines. He asserts that WAC operation should reflect an academy characterized by multiple language communities-each with contextualized values, purposes, and forms for writing, and no single community’s values superior to another’s.

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The Mission of Demythologizing Rudolf Bultmann’s Dialectical Theology


Free Download The Mission of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann’s Dialectical Theology By David W. Congdon
2015 | 988 Pages | ISBN: 1451487924 | EPUB | 3 MB
Rudolf Bultmann’s controversial program of demythologizing has been the subject of constant debate since it was first announced in 1941. It is widely held that this program indicates Bultmann’s departure from the dialectical theology he once shared with Karl Barth. In the 1950s, Barth thus referred to their relationship as that of a whale and an elephant: incapable of meaningful communication. This study proposes a contrary reading of demythologizing as the hermeneutical fulfillment of dialectical theology on the basis of a reinterpretation of Barth’s theological project.

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