Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the quest… - Rudolf Bultmann

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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 Bultmann

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Rudolf Karl Bultmann (20 August 1884 – 30 July 1976) was a German theologian of Lutheran background, who was for three decades professor of New Testament studies at the University of Marburg.

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