Christian mythology

From a Christian mythology is spoken mainly in relation to mythical levels within the Christian doctrine. Christianity itself understands its Trinitarian Christ myth but just as overcoming the pagan mythologies. The Incarnate Word of God, the Christian Logos, which is the human, Christian deity Jesus Christ (see Christian theology ), is based on the Christ myth.

A distinction between a Christian mythology of the Old Testament and the New Testament and the Early Church and during the Christianization.

In the course of Christianity, evangelization and mission myths were added and reshaped other cultures. From a Christian perspective, these myths were seen as components of pagan mythologies that a pagan and mythical basic salary in the Christian theology received in this way, particularly in connection with the legends of the saints.

A high mythological content is About Swept recognizable in Christianity, as it is recognized in Jesus the Christ myth and myth. This in turn has led some Christian theologians to develop a within Christian theology, however, controversial program of demythologizing (see especially Rudolf Bultmann ).

Most frequently spoken of Christian mythology in connection with:

• Christian- biblical stories of creation and paradise: the Garden of Eden and the Fall
• The debate about the Christian image of God: Gods ( Bible ), Götze
• Christian end-time expectations and apocalyptic visions within and outside of the Christian Bible ( apocalyptic )
• Angel: nine choirs of angels, cherubim and seraphim, archangels Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel, Melek Taus, Metatron
• Devils and demons and their expulsion or mastery: Ananizapta, Beliar
• The biblical monsters: Behemoth and Leviathan
• The saints, for example, George, Catherine, Nino, Fourteen Holy Helpers, Zeno of Verona
• The Holy Grail or the relics
• The traditional Christian anti-Semitism: eg Eternal Jew, substitution theology
• The Jesus myth or the Christ Myth