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Humankind has a basic need to discover meaning in the world. This need, says Thomas Molnar, can be satisfied not through the exercise of reason but only through myth and symbol, which mediate the transcendent to the humain level. Although they were originally constituent elements in the Christian worldview, myth and symbol were gradually rejected as the church began to emphasize instead the power of rational thought. Through the exercise of reason, a "rationalistic" Christianity can discover some truth, but that rational truth is never sufficient to lead one to assent in faith to the redeeming God above. Rather, it merely pushes the frontier of the unknown farther away. In the face of a rationalized and demythologized Christianity, many have sought alternate myths and symbols to understand the world. This is the pagan temptation. There has been a continuous pagan influence throughout Christian history, says Molnar, that has grown increasingly coherent, assertive, and organized, especially from the fourteenth century onwards. In the twentieth century the pagan influence is pervasive, as many Westerners turn from Christianity to seek meaning in pagan myth and in the new occult. The only way to counter the pagan temptation, says Molnar, is to restore myth and symbol to a vital role in the faith.

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230.2 "19" --- Christianity and culture --- -Theology, Doctrinal --- -Christian doctrines --- Christianity --- Doctrinal theology --- Doctrines, Christian --- Dogmatic theology --- Fundamental theology --- Systematic theology --- Theology, Dogmatic --- Theology, Systematic --- Theology --- Contextualization (Christian theology) --- Culture and Christianity --- Inculturation (Christian theology) --- Indigenization (Christian theology) --- Culture --- 230.2 "19" Theologische scholen--(verder in te delen zoals 28)--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Theologische scholen--(verder in te delen zoals 28)--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- History --- -Doctrines --- Christian dogmatics --- -History --- -Christian dogmatics --- History -