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n. - The restatement of a message (as a religious one) in rational terms.

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  • But if he had studied the matter a little more closely he would have learned that the humanities are remnants of points of view he himself calls "obsolescent," that they...
  • Okay, fair enough, but his "demythologization" is more aggressive even than that.
  • The "demythologization" project as Butlmann applied it for example in his Gifford lectures suffers most of all I think because of a sort of scientism that pervades it.
  • This novella is a deliberate attempt at what Robert M. Price calls "demythologization," but which I think is better expressed as "remythologization" of the Cthulhu Mythos.
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