It is impossible to repristinate a past world picture by sheer resolve, especially a mythical world picture, now that all of our thinking is irrevocably formed by science. A blind acceptance of New Testament mythology would be simply arbitrariness; to… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
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
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
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… — 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… — 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
“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
Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms. — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share
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
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
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
