Bultmann Quotes

#1. The great Christian theologian Rudolf Bultmann liked to say that the quest for the historical Jesus is ultimately an internal quest. Scholars tend to see the Jesus they want to see. Too often they see themselves - their own reflection - in the image of Jesus they have constructed.

Reza Aslan

#2. This is what makes me happy: Remembering where I put my house keys ...

Art Buchwald

#3. 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 believe in the spirit and wonder world of the New Testament.

Rudolf Bultmann

#4. Flames moved towards him
and dropped within
-
singed and marred
his tender skin ...
(the frightful plight tale)

Muse

#5. There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.

Rudolf Bultmann

#6. I love Louisiana. It's amazing.

Johnny Knoxville

#7. Animals eat one another without qualm; civilized men consume one another by due process of law. Co-operation

Will Durant

#8. Man is always on the way.

Rudolf Bultmann

#9. 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.

Rudolf Bultmann

#10. If elitist groups like Bohemian Club, the CFR and the Bilderberg Group select and groom candidates to become Presidents of the US then isn't it safe to assume they also dictate certain policies once their alumni are in the White House?

Lance Morcan

#11. When reason has followed its road to the end, the point of crisis is reached and man is brought to the great question mark over his own existence.

Rudolf Karl Bultmann

#12. 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.

Rudolf Bultmann

#13. You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#14. Christian life is not realized in developing the personality or in shaping human community and somehow changing the world but in turning away from the world and becoming free of it.

Rudolf Bultmann

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

Rudolf Bultmann