“Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.” WantDoeTermMythExistentialist Book:New Testament and mythology and other basic writings Source: New Testament and mythology and other basic writings
“The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk about a transcendent power to which both we and the world are subject is hampered and obscured by the objectifying character of its assertions.” WorldRealCharacterSubjectsIntentionMythMotiveCriticizeRepresentationAssertionTranscendentObjectifying Author: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 which man knows himself to be dependent, powers whose favors he needs, powers whose wrath he fears. Myths express the knowledge that man is not master of the world and his life, that the world within which he lives is full of riddles and mysteries and that human life also is full of riddles and mysteries.” KnowsMenWorldNeedsGivingHumansMaySaidRealityLife IsSpeakMysteryMastersMythFavorsHuman LifeDemonDependentWorldlyWrathObjectivityTranscendentRiddle Author:Rudolf Bultmann
