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ABSTRACT Sometimes there are more questions in my mind than answers. Questions about the Bible and the church, and questions about the church’s interpretation of the Bible and their confessions. The issue that triggered me the most was the issue about the two worlds in which the church to which I belong lives. When the church as institute talks politics and economics, those in a position of leadership try to do it in a modern to postmodern register on a relatively high scientific level. However, when the majority of the church members interpret the Bible, they choose to be mythical. To me, these two worlds are irreconcilable. I cannot live from Monday to Saturday in a postmodern world and on Sundays state that I still believe in the historicity of a virgin conception, a bodily resurrection from death, and a Bible as if it is the word of God1. Yet, I believe in the resurrection, but in the resurrection as a kerygmatic2 event. I do not read every page or saying and deed in the Bible literally. I consider the books of the Bible as antique documents from a world that has gone by. But I still take the Bible seriously (cf Borg 2002:xi) because I have met God in the kerygma3 that is to be found in the Bible
Keywords: A POSTMODERN UNDERSTANDING OF MYTH, RESURRECTION AND CANON
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