demythologization
- n the restatement of a message (as a religious one) in rational terms
- It seems that nothing is safe from demythologization, secularization and, ultimately, sanitation.
- At first look, demythologization seems to be nothing but a continuation of "liberal" Christianity's old effort to reduce the Gospel to a palatable compound of clean living and .
- But in the last section of the book, dealing directly with primitive Christianity, demythologization is seen at work.