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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-bultmann/it-is-impossible-to-repristinate-a-past-world-picture-by-sheer/)

[Rudolf Bultmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-bultmann/)

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## More by Rudolf Bultmann

> [We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern medical and clinical means and at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-bultmann/we-cannot-use-electric-lights-and-radios-and-in-the-event-of-illness/)

[Rudolf Bultmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-bultmann/)

> [Man is always on the way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-bultmann/man-is-always-on-the-way/)

[Rudolf Bultmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-bultmann/)

> [There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-bultmann/there-is-something-precious-in-our-being-mysteries-to-ourselves-in/)

[Rudolf Bultmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-bultmann/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-bultmann/it-may-be-said-that-myths-give-to-the-transcendent-reality-an/)

[Rudolf Bultmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-bultmann/)

> [Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge this mythical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-bultmann/contemporary-christian-proclamation-is-faced-with-the-question/)

[Rudolf Bultmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-bultmann/)

> [Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-bultmann/christian-life-is-not-realized-in-developing-the-personality-or-in/)

[Rudolf Bultmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-bultmann/)

> [“All such desires are cut short by the statement: the Word became flesh. It is in his sheer humanity that he is the Revealer.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-bultmann/all-such-desires-are-cut-short-by-the-statement-the-word-became-flesh/)

[Rudolf Bultmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-bultmann/)

> [Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-bultmann/myth-does-not-want-to-be-interpreted-in-cosmological-terms-but-in/)

[Rudolf Bultmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-bultmann/)

> [It is impossible to repristinate a past world picture by sheer resolve, especially a mythical world picture, now that all of our thinking is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-bultmann/it-is-impossible-to-repristinate-a-past-world-picture-by-sheer/)

[Rudolf Bultmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-bultmann/)

> [The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk about a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-bultmann/the-motive-for-criticizing-myth-that-is-its-objectifying/)

[Rudolf Bultmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-bultmann/)

> [The mythology of the New Testament, also, is not to be questioned with respect to the content of its objectifying representations but with respect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-bultmann/the-mythology-of-the-new-testament-also-is-not-to-be-questioned-with/)

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