We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern medical and clinical means and at the same time beli… - 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 the understanding of existence that expresses itself in them.

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.

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