Myth and Kerygma: A Question of Demythologization of the Mind Directed Towards Itself

U ovome prilogu autor razmatra najprije odnos mita i logosa polazeći od racionalne novovjekovne destrukcije mita kao iracionalne tvorevine. Vraćajući se od logosa k mitu upravo se pokazuje da se nastanak novovjekovne umnosti bitno vezuje za njezin prekid s mitom, zbog čega je nastala jedna nova mitologija, mitologija uma koji cjelokupnu zbiljnost promatra kao svoju tvorevinu i kao rezultat ozbiljenja njegove autonomije. Taj prekid uma s mitom uzrokovao je istodobno i gubitak njegovog odnosa s onim nepoznatim, tajnovitim i neizrecivim, do čijeg nas praga uvijek iznova dovodi upravo mit. Povratak od logosa k mitu ima stoga značenje povratka čovjekovom izvornom iskustvu smisla vlastitoga bitka. Kao posredujuća točka na ovome putu razmatra se pojam kerigme koja kao navještaj ili ponuda jednoga puta upravo zahtijeva odluku i odgovorno nasljedovanje te poruke u vlastitom životu, bez čega i sama kerigma gubi svoj smisao. Tako se na koncu pokazuje da su koliko mitovi toliko i navještaji velikih religija ne samo put k smisaonom samorazumijevanju čovjekove egzistencije, nego i onaj horizont, u kojemu se i sam um može osloboditi od zarobljenosti samim sobom i stupiti na tlo nepoznatoga i tajnovitoga, čije paradokse on ne može više riješiti na »logički« način, već samo slušanjem, razumijevanjem i izvršavanjem onoga što ga pogađa u toj nepoznatosti i transcendentnosti.The author in this article firstly reflects on the connection between myth and the logos, starting from the rationale of the modern age destruction of the myth as an irrational production. Returning from the logos to the myth, he showns that the continuation of modern age thinking is importantly tied to its termination with myth, allowing for the emergence of a new mythology, a mythology of the mind which perceives the whole of reality as its creation and as a result a more serious autonomy. This severance of the mind from the myth simultaneously causes a loss of relation with that unknown, mysterious and unspeakable, which the myth always brings us anew to the threshold. The return from the logos to the myth therefore has the significance of the return of man\u27s original experience from the thought to idea of a personal being. The mediating point in considering the concept kerygma as a proclamation or offer of a better method, demands a decision and responsible acceptance of this message in one\u27s life, without which the kerygma looses its sense of meaning. Finally, it is evident that the number of myths are dependent of the number of proclamations in the great religions, not only is it a way to a meaningful self-realisation of man\u27s existence, but also that horizon, in which the mind itself can be freed from enslavement within itself, and move to the ground of the unknown and secret, whose paradox he can no longer solve in a »logical« way, but only by listening, understanding and doing that which affects it in the unknown and transcendence