Process Thought, Myth, Mythology, and Demythologizing

 Allan, George. The Importances Of The Past: A Meditation on the Authority of Tradition.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. [abstract]

Altizer, Thomas J. J. “The Religious Meaning of Myth and Symbol.”  In Truth, Myth, and Symbol, eds., Thomas Altizer, William A. Beardslee, and J. Young.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice-Hall, 1962, pp. 87-108. [abstract]  [Analytic Theology, Language, Myth, Mysticism]

Altizer, Thomas J. J., William A. Beardslee, and J. Harvey Young eds. Truth, Myth, and Symbol.     Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice-Hall, 1962. [abstract]

Auxier, Randall E.  "Susanne Langer on Symbols and Analogy:  A Case of Misplaced Concreteness?"  Process Studies 26, nos.1-2 (Spring-Summer 1997): 86-106.  [abstract]

Cobb, John B., Jr.  “Christianity and Myth.”  Journal of Bible and Religion 33 (1965): 314-320.

_____. "Process Theology and Demythologizing."  (unpublished).

Code, Murray. "Explanation and Natural Philosophy:  Or, the Rationalization of Mysticism."  Process Studies 27, nos.3-4 (Fall-Winter 1998): 308-27.

_____. Myths of Reason: Vagueness, Ratinality, and the Lure of Logic. New Jersey: the Humanities Press, 1995. [abstract]

Earley, Jay.  Transforming Human Culture: Social Evolution and the Planetary Crisis.  SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought.  Ed., David. R. Griffin.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. [abstract]

Ferré, Frederick.  “Myths and Hope for Global Society.”  Contemporary Philosophy 12:9 (May, 1989): 9-15.

Finkelstein, David. "Logos/ Mythos." Kenyon Review I. no. 1. (Winter 1979) 136-150.

Gilkey, Langdon. Religion and the Scientific Future: Reflections on Myth, Science, and Theology. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1970. [abstract]

Griffin, David R.  “Myth, Incarnation, and the Need for a Postmodern Theology.”  

Hayward, John F.  “The Theology and Philosophy of Mythical Symbolism: A Study in the Function and Validity of Non-cognitive Symbols with Special Reference to the Writings of Paul Tillich and Alfred North Whitehead.” Ph.D. Dis., University of Chicago, 1949.

Hefner, Philip. "Editorial: The Mythic Grounding of Religion and Science." Zygon 41, no. 2 (June 2006): 231-234.  

Keller, Katherine.  From a Broken Web: Separation, Sexism, and Self.  Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1986.  [See pp. 53-6, 62, 65-6, and 74 on Joseph Campbell]

Kuester, Harold. “Polanyi on Religion.” Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers 1, no. 1 (January 1984): 77-88.

Meland, Bernard E.  “Analogy and Myth in Postliberal Theology.”  Perkins School of Theology Journal 15 (1962): 19-27.

_____. Fallible Forms and Symbols: Discourses on Method in a Theology of Culture. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1976. [abstract]

_____.  “Myth as a Mode of Awareness and Intelligibility.”  American Jour­nal of Theology and Philosophy 8:3 (September 1987): 109-119.

_____.  “Mythos and Logos.”  In Fallible Forms and Symbols: Discourses on Method in a Theology of Culture.  Philadelphia, PA:  Fortress Press, 1976, pp. 102-117.

Morgan, George, Jr.  “The Organization of a Story and a Tale.”  Journal of American Folklore 58 (1945): 169-194.

Moseley, Fred.  “Bultmann’s Demythologizing.” (unpubl.) [discusses Ogden] [abstract] [Biblical Studies, Language, Myth]

Neville, Robert Cummings. The Truth of Broken Symbols. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. [abstract]

Ogden, Schubert.  “Bultmann’s Demythologizing and Hartshorne’s Dipolar Theism.” (unpubl.)

_____.  Christ Without Myth.  New York:  Harper and Row, 1961.

_____.  “The Debate on ‘Demythologizing’.”  Journal of Bible and Religion 27 (1959): 17-27.

_____.  “Myth.”  In The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology. Philadelphia, PA:  Westminster Press, 1983, pp. 389-91.

_____.  “Myth and Truth.”  McCormick Quarterly 18 [Special Supplement] (1965): 57-76.

_____.  “On Demythologizing.”  Pittburgh Perspective 8:2 (1967): 27-35.

Ogden, Schubert M, ed. New Testament & Mythology and Other Basic Writings. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984. [abstract]

Oliver, Harold H. A Relational Metaphysic. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1981. [abstract]

Power, William L. "Existential-Hayatological Theism." International Journal of Philosophy of Religion 61 (2007): 181-198. (electronic format only) [abstract] [Biblical Studies, Myth]

_____.  “Myth, Truth, and Justification in Religion.”  Dialogue and Alliance 1:4 (Winter, 1973): 44-46.

Schilbrack, Kevin. "Myth and Metaphysics." International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 48 (2000): 65-80.

Sellery, J’Nan Morse.  “The Necessity for Symbol and Myth: A Literary Amplification.”  In Archetypal Process:  Self and Divine in Whitehead, Jung, and Hillman, ed. David Ray Griffin.  Evanston, IL:  Northwestern University Press, 1989, pp. 93-103.

Shelburne, Walter A. Mythos and Logos in the Thought of Carl Jung: The Theory of the Collective Unconscious in Scientific Perspective. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988. [abstract]

Slusser, Gerald H.  “Jung and Whitehead on Self and Divine:  The Necessity for Symbol and Myth.”  In Archetypal Process: Self and Divine in White­head, Jung, and Hillman, ed. David Ray Griffin.  Evanston, IL:  North­western University Press, 1989, pp. 77-92

Wildiers, N. Max. The Theologian and His Universe: Theology and Cosmology from the Middle Ages to the Present. New York: Seabury, 1982. [abstract].