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 which he lives is full of riddles and mysteries and that human life also is full of riddles and mysteries.
Man is always on the way. - Rudolf Bultmann
Man is always on the way.
- 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 whic… - 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 whic…
Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge this… - 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…
There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart … - 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 to our heart …
Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms. - Rudolf Bultmann
Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.
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
The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk about a …
Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from th… - 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 th…
It is impossible to repristinate a past world picture by sheer resolve, especially a mythical world picture, now that all of our thinking is irrevoca… - 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 irrevoca…
The mythology of the New Testament, also, is not to be questioned with respect to the content of its objectifying representations but with respect to… - 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 to…
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