[Today, 50 years after Schoonenberg published, I may delineate threads that link the themes.

First, let me start with the idea that Modernism was built on mythologies.

For the modern, mythology associates with the word: “False”. The dichotomy is true versus false. Mythology is false.

For the premodern Christian, mythology associates with the word: “Deception”. The dichotomy is true versus deception. Pagan myth is deceptive.

Why?

The original Christians are all converts. They abandon their Greek, German, Roman and other mythologies. Yet, those religions still call them to return.]