“Can there be a demythologizing interpretation that discloses the truth of the kerygma as kerygma for those who do not think mythologically?”

—  Rudolf Karl Bultmann

Kann es eine entmythologisierende Interpretation geben, die die Wahrheit des Kerygmas als Kerygmas für den nicht mythologisch denkenden Menschen aufdeckt?
Source: New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings (1941), p. 14

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