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Alfred Loisy and les Mythes Babyloniens: Loisy’s Discourse on Myth in the Context of Modernism

  • Jeffrey L. Morrow EMAIL logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 11. Juni 2015

Abstract

With the 1901 publication of his Les Mythes babyloniens et les premiers chapitres de la Genèse, the French Catholic scholar Alfred Loisy examined carefully parallels between Babylonian literature and the Book of Genesis. In German scholarship, this had been a growing fascination since at least the 1895 publication of Hermann Gunkel’s Schöpfung und Chaos in Urzeit und Endzeit. Loisy’s use of the concept of “Myth” provides an important window into the appropriation of German scholarship on religion and the Bible into the French scholarly world. Through Loisy’s work, what had been primarily a German Protestant academic discussion became one of the matchsticks that ignited what would become known as the Roman Catholic Modernist Crisis. This present article situates Loisy’s appropriation of “Myth” from the German scholarship he mastered within the proximate cultural, historical, and religious context that became Roman Catholic Modernism


Correction Note

Originally, also the article Sean Dempsey, Re-Reading Wordsworth’s “Michael”: Sacramental Poetics in a Secular Agewas published under this DOI. Its correct DOI is 10.1515/znth-2015-1005.


Online erschienen: 2015-6-11
Erschienen im Druck: 2014-4-15

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