The Jesus figure In the New Testament. Testimonies about Jesus of Nazareth two dimensions are interwoven into each other. We meet there on the one hand, the historical person Jesus of Nazareth. This historical figure, but set in the
myth of the Jesus figure .
myths meet the needs of individuals and groups to explore the depth dimension of their reality. They should indicate the existence, meaningful relationships can be seen to give power at critical junctions of individual and social existence. Unlike philosophical concepts or mathematical models, which are indeed different ways depending on the understanding of reality, myths are holistic creations. They are not solely rational in terms or formulas reduced structure. Rather, they are creative inventions of pictures, stories, of rational and irrational. They derive their dynamics from the deep layers of human consciousness.
no longer recognize the laws of Aristotelian logic and the laws of nature, at least those of Newtonian mechanics and physics are of limited quality. If the mathematical formula is an extreme way to show the reality, the myth is the opposite to others. Conversely, one could say: If you want what is the mathematical formula to sum up nearly adequately in words, one must have recourse to myth.
myths are not just fantastic stories of a prehistoric past. Rather, they are stories that take place continually. They are, if not the fabulous "It was once ..." freeze, an ever-recurring event. In them are past, present and future meet in one point. So myths are told again and again, played and celebrated. This corresponds to simply a psychological need of man. It is as if anyone particularly happy or something deeply shocking has happened. He feels forced, always tell and always like this. It is a worrying sign of a psychological complication when that does not remain silent.
The role of the individual and every social structure is to develop in line and their distance from its myth, and to have such a way to reactivate itself, and weiterzuspinnen.
myth and history are not identical. Where they coincide, the myth of totalitarian ideology. Myth is rather a complex way of understanding history. Myth is timeless in the sense that are present and active past, present and future, always, anytime, anywhere. Myth is transcendent in the sense that it can never fix without rest in a place in an event at a particular time of history. If this happens - and it happens constantly - myth, history, people and life are raped.
"following Jesus' way as an individual and collective spiritual awakening is therefore an ongoing interaction and communication with the
myth of the Jesus figure . The Jesus figure
I call what the historical person of Jesus of Nazareth, who was born at a particular time in history, lived and died, transcended. The Jesus figure is to some extent on the individual, over-personal
value of the historical Jesus of Nazareth. The Christian tradition brings this Christ is Lord, Son of God, Son of David, Son of Man and Others
If this exaltation of Jesus, however, leads to alienate Jesus his humanity by giving it exclusive divinity ascribed, then, in the various titles reflect that she has given Jesus the full meaning of incarnation robbed of its meaning. If the so-called "territorial title" Jesus only property, then Jesus is not in solidarity with the people. The added value of Jesus, his Jesus-figure is preserved only if Jesus
increase both our increase is .
"follow Jesus" means, therefore, their own individual and collective existence to realize the horizon of the Jesus-figure, so that Jesus "everything will in everything."
