'New Testament and Mythology' by Rudolf Bultmann (1941)



This book is often invoked as a work of modern theology of singular importance. It is well known in seminary colleges, amongst theologians and historians. Its organizing theme is the 'de-mythologization' of the New Testament's mythology, often described as a kind of 'existentialist interpretation', forged in the crucible of WWII.


Bultmann colorfully describes the quest for the facts of history as “a kind of pathology of the necrophiliac theological archivist."
Forthcoming