Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge this mythical world picture from the past. If this is impossible, it has to face the question whether… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share
We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern medical and clinical means and at the… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on which man knows himself to be dependent, powers whose favors he needs, powers whose wrath he fears. Myths express the knowledge that man is not master of the world and his life, that the world within… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share
Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge this mythical world picture from the past. If this is impossible, it has to face the question whether the New Testament proclamation has a truth that is independent of the mythical world picture, in which case it would… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share
Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
“All such desires are cut short by the statement: the Word became flesh. It is in his sheer humanity that he is the Revealer.… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms. — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
It is impossible to repristinate a past world picture by sheer resolve, especially a mythical world picture, now that all of our thinking is… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk about a… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
The mythology of the New Testament, also, is not to be questioned with respect to the content of its objectifying representations but with respect… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
