Week 4, Cobb, Chapter 4 Theological Tools

As I reflect on the Theological Tools that Cobb writes about I'm drawn to this idea of myth and what myths mean in our current context. Cobb writes that, "novelists, poets, filmmakers, and painters are reliable indices to the currently vital myths in a culture..." (Cobb, p. 123). He sites Mircea Eliade as a person who claims we have a mythic space in our subconscious that needs to be filled. He also claims that with religious myths on the wane we fill this space with other myths. This is an interesting proposition and I wonder what kind of repercussions this has on our religious identity as a whole. Have religious myths lost their luster? Is there a way to bring religious myths back into the consciousness? Or, is the result of moving into a more pluralistic society creating a loss of religious myth as a whole.