/lit/ - Literature

>>12155395
He's great. If you live in the west and haven't read him you're missing out. Don't take his analysis in comparative mythology as an excuse to formulate your own Christianity, however. It isn't all metaphors and psychological symbols.

>>12156872
Many years ago after watching the Bill Moyers' interview, transcribed in The Power of Myth, I read The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Around then I also read Homer for the second time, and Robert Graves' The Greek Myths, Ivanhoe, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. You would do well to read Malory also, and the epic of Gilgamesh. After that was done I continued with Campbell's The Masks of God, a four volume set. It was at this time I also began seriously reading the Bible. I had read some Buddhist texts years earlier as a teenager, and Campbell goes over some eastern mythology (especially Kali), but that is not my heritage. Here is where Campbell goes into Jung a bit. I have not read as much Jung as I should, but Man and his Symbols was a good introduction. The first part of the book is great, some of the later essays by his students are not. The Red Book is a mystical work I've been putting off until after I've read Aion. Hoeller's The Gnostic Jung is an indispensable companion to Campbell's Masks of God. Frazer's The Golden Bough is also mentioned frequently, along with Pausanias, mostly to reference traditions of a specific time and place. Those are worth reading for themselves, as well.

tldr: Campbell is comfy reading. If you want to read Campbell, be sure you want to read a lot more too.

>>11700385
>Not embarrassed, stop getting emotional over this argument, that is called projection.
You're so careless with a topic you pretend to respect you're actually pissing me the fuck off.

>How's this wrong?
Lukewarm IQ confirmed. Did you read Galatians 5 like I told you to?

I've already explained how wisdom and faith are not the same. Words mean things. The translations you are proposing don't make sense. Look up the definition of rhetoric. Look up the definition of love. Here, I'll even post a picture for you. These words are not interchangeable. They cannot be exchanged for one another and retain the same meaning. The act of love and forgiveness as expressed in Gal 5:14 is independent of rhetoric. You have not thought carefully enough.

For the last time, stop making this about you.

>>11695728
you called it.

>>11695731
>make you look obsessive and pedantic
So you would make an excuse to leave my home because of some misconception you imagined? :^)

>loathe theology
They're on the periphery. They're just what they sound like: a dictionary that examines the Greek and Hebrew usage of common terms in the NT, their usage in the OT, etymologies and philosophical connotations even out to the Greeks. It's a good companion.

/pedant