Rolland Hein (1932–2023)
Autore di Christian Mythmakers: C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, J.R.R. Tolkien, George Madonald, G.K. Chesterton, and Others
Sull'Autore
Rolland Hein professor emeritus from Wheaton College, also graduated from Wheaton in 1954. Having recieved a B. D. degree from Grace Theological Seminary and a B.D. from Purdue University, he taught English at Bethel College, St: Paul, until 1970. His writings include George MacDonald: Victorian mostra altro Mythmaker and Christian Mythmakers. He currently conducts a class in myth at the Wade Center on Saturday mornings. He and his wife Dorothy live near St. Charles, IL. mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Courtesey of Rolland Hein
Opere di Rolland Hein
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1932
- Data di morte
- 2023-03-10
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Carol Stream, Illinois, USA
- Causa della morte
- cancer, pancreatic (complications)
- Luogo di residenza
- Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
Warsaw, Indiana, USA
Lafayette, Indiana, USA
St. Charles, Illinois, USA
Carol Stream, Illinois, USA - Istruzione
- Wheaton College (B.A., 1954)
Grace Theological Seminary (B.D., 1957)
Purdue University (M.A., 1963) - Attività lavorative
- pastor
scholar
professor - Relazioni
- Kilby, Clyde S. (teacher)
- Organizzazioni
- Wheaton College
National Association of Scholars
George MacDonald Society
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 12
- Utenti
- 495
- Popolarità
- #49,936
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 29
Also enjoyable was Clyde Kilby's forward on the nature of myth. Myth in the writings of these authors is not the low definition of discredited stories. Rather, this book discusses the higher meaning of myth. In the words of Kilby, "Myth is the name of a way of seeing, a way of knowing in depth, a way of experiencing -- a way that in being disinterested contains the freedom of unending and vital interest." Myth is necessary because "Systematizing flattens, but myth rounds out. Systematizing drains away color and life, but myth restores." Any translation of idea into language, reality into system loses some depth. Myth is what recaptures that depth by providing sidelong glimpses of some sensed truth.
Hein makes the assumption that the truth that myth points to is embodied in Christianity -- the Bible presents myth that is also factual truth. This is not a bad assumption in so far as it is what the authors under discussion believed. However, it is an assumption and one that fails to carry its own weight upon further examination.
In the end, this book was a worthwhile read, but the large number of authors surveyed and lack of willingness to examine the basic assumptions Christianity's relationship to myth made it somewhat shallow.… (altro)