ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about myth, which can express mankind's profoundest experiences, speaking of myth in connection with Christ in no way implies reducing or denying his importance. Jesus Christ is considered here as a crucial figure in the cultural history of the West, as his person have been understood, experienced and formulated in religious conscience and in the literary expressions or representations, conformist or otherwise, it has provoked. The first centuries of Christianity were in fact much more impressed by the divinity visible through the humanity of Jesus Christ. As with other literary genres in the modern period, literature devoted to Jesus Christ could either move towards reconstruction, evoking the Jesus of former times, a probable figure in his historical setting. It is hardly possible to rediscover the psychological make-up of Jesus the Evangelists were not much concerned with it, nor were early Christian traditions.
