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In Christ without Myth, I took a position in important respects different from the one I should now wish to defend. The crux of the difference is that there I simply identified Christian faith with authentic human existence, whereas now I would stress the distinction between them, while still seeking to avoid a monistic (i.e., either exclusivistic or inclusivistic) understanding of the other religious and cultural traditions in relation to Christianty. (It is no doubt arguable that, even in Christ without Myth, my position was more complex -- or, more exactly, more incoherent or self-contradictory -- insofar as I, too, in my way, distinguished Christian faith from authentic self-understanding, even while saying other things that asserted or implied their identity.)

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