关于“去神话化”问题

采用客观化方式的自然科学必然要去神话化。但人的存在是向将来敞开的历史性生存,历史科学既需要自然科学式的去神话化,又不能像自然科学那样简单地消除神话,而是需要通过一种生存主义解释来找出神话的意义,即把其真实意图还原为对人之本真生存的言说。基督教信仰和关于上帝行为的言说可以最终不采用神话的方式。

On the Problem of Demythologizing

Firstly,"demythologizing" means a hermeneutical procedure that inquires about the reality referred to by mythological texts. Secondly,natural science must eliminate myth,but historical science has to interpret myth and give full weight to myth’s real intention to speak of man’s authentic reality. Finally,in religion including,God is not an objectively demonstrable fact,his action can be spoken of only if we speak of our own existence,speaking about God’s action is therefore not necessarily mythological,which can and must be interpreted existentially.