Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.

- 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

Man is always on the way.

- 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 …

- 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 …

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- Rudolf Bultmann