[63] Christianity^a. History proves that there are not only natural myths^b (meaning myths in which the movement of the sun and the moon, and day and night, etc., are mythologically understood, and deepened [?]), but there are also historical myths^c which are not repetitions. If, for instance, the earth is seen as the battle-place of two divine powers, the divine and the demonic (as in ancient Persia), then this is a historical myth. It is linear, not circular. It the God^d of creation selects and guides a nation through history, towards an end which transcends all history, this is a historical myth. If the Christ, the transcendent divine being, appears "in the fullness of time," lives, dies, and resurrects, this is a historical myth. Christianity is superior to those religions which are bound to a natural myth, which are not the Asiatic ones, but partly the Greek religions and most of the Semitic religions. But Christianity speaks the mythological language, like every other religion. It is a broken myth, of course, in which Christianity expresses itself, but it is a myth. Therefore Christianity would not be an expression of ultimate concern if the concern about the really Ultimate were expressed in any other way. Now this is enough about the language of religion, and I will not go on today, but I will try to give the 15 minutes we still have for answering questions which must have come up in your minds. And here are some written -- I will try to read them. If not, those who wrote them may ask them again: QUESTION: It God^e is completely unknown--that is, no direct knowledge of Him is possible--how do we know that the fact of ultimate concern is grounded in Him? It is not a risk we dare, but a blind chance. TILLICH: Now let me go into this question. What does it mean when the question asked, "God is completely unknown"? It presupposes, first of all, the concept of God. Therefore if it uses the word "God^f"--I mean now the question-- and asks about His being completley [sic.] unknown, there is a contradiction in this. If He were completely unknown, it would be meaningless to use these three letters, G-O-D, presupposing that they have a meaning. If they have a meaning, there is knowledge.