Abstract
The Protestant theologian, Paul Tillich, analyzing the needs of moderns in The Courage to Be, sees twentieth century man as a rootless being who "has lost a meaningful world and a self which lives in meanings out of a spiritual center." Such a man is desperately in need of myth, but not the myth the ancients knew. Olympian tales cannot serve when science and technology have made accessible the mountains of the moon. Nor can contemporary man find meaning and his vanished "self" in myth as it is popularly understood. A fable has no power in an age that seeks at any cost objective truth. What man does need is modern myth — a dynamic, vital myth that is, in many of its aspects, new.