Rudolf Karl Bultmann: Quotes about the past

Rudolf Karl Bultmann was German theologian. Explore interesting quotes on past.
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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 make such acceptance a demand of faith would be to reduce faith to a work.”

Rudolf Karl Bultmann

Source: New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings (1941), p. 3

World , Faith , Thinking , Science

“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 be the task of theology to demythologize the Christian proclamation.”

Rudolf Karl Bultmann

Source: New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings (1941), p. 3

Women , Men , Truth , World

“Can the Christian proclamation today expect men and women to acknowledge the mythical world picture as true? To do so would be both pointless and impossible. It would be pointless because there is nothing specifically Christian about the mythical world picture, which is simply the world picture of a time now past which was not yet formed by scientific thinking. It would be impossible because no one can appropriate a world picture by sheer resolve, since it is already given with one’s historical situation.”

Rudolf Karl Bultmann

Source: New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings (1941), p. 3

Women , Men , World , Thinking