Cosmogonic or creation myths A mythical, philosophical and theological interpretation of the diverse cosmogonic myths : in conversation with Charles Long

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dc.contributor.author Van Rooyen, J.A. (Johan)
dc.date.accessioned 2020-05-06T13:18:37Z
dc.date.available 2020-05-06T13:18:37Z
dc.date.issued 2020-04
dc.description This research is part of the project, ‘Religious Experience from an evolutionary perspective’, directed by Prof. Dr Danie Veldsman, Department of Systematic and Historical Theology, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria. en_ZA
dc.description.abstract Cosmogonic myths, also referred to as creation myths, are theological and philosophical explanations of ancient myths of creation within a religious Homo sapien hamlet. In the context of this article, the word myth is attributed to the extravagant quixotic interpretation in anecdote (in both visionary and narrative sense) of what is accomplished or ceased as a key or essential phenomenon. The terms or language concepts of cosmogonic or creation invoke the start of things, whether by the desire and action of a surpass Actuality, by emergence from some eventful Actuality or by an additional alternative process. Mystics, scientists, philosophers and theologians of today set forward a method, to my mind, of pluralistic interpretation of the whole understanding and interpretation of a cosmogonic and creation myth that includes a variety of Actualities (deities or gods), in the world, according to basic Western and Eastern religious and rational classifications. These rational classifications have a phenomenological epistemic impact and even a certain righteousness of whoever wants to believe whatever of creation. Let it be …, as it should be ontological (showing the relations between the concepts [myths] and categories [criterion of these myths] in a subject area [a variety of philosophies or religions] or domain [places where these myths are experienced]) and epistemological (relating to the theory of knowledge [how these myths evolved in the thought processes of sapiens], especially with regard to its methods [e.g. sacramental], validity [the genuineness and lawfulness of these myth’s], scope [the extend thereof] and the distinction between justified belief and opinion) and be positive for theologians as objects and religious sapiens as subjects. en_ZA
dc.description.department Dogmatics and Christian Ethics en_ZA
dc.description.librarian hj2020 en_ZA
dc.description.uri http://www.hts.org.za en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Van Rooyen, J.A., 2020, ‘Cosmogonic or creation myths A mythical, philosophical and theological interpretation of the diverse cosmogonic myths: In conversation with Charles Long’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 76(1), a5853. https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5853. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 0259-9422 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 2072-8050 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.4102/hts.v76i1.5853
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/74503
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher AOSIS Open Journals en_ZA
dc.rights © 2020. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. en_ZA
dc.subject Cosmogonic en_ZA
dc.subject Creation en_ZA
dc.subject Pluralism en_ZA
dc.subject Diversity en_ZA
dc.subject Myths en_ZA
dc.subject Richard Long en_ZA
dc.subject Ontological en_ZA
dc.subject Actualities as gods or deities en_ZA
dc.subject Epistemological en_ZA
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dc.title Cosmogonic or creation myths A mythical, philosophical and theological interpretation of the diverse cosmogonic myths : in conversation with Charles Long en_ZA
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