RLG100Y1 Chapter Bultmann’s Theory of Demythologizing Scripture: Bultmann’s Theory of Demythologizing Scripture
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As the study of the bible became incredibly popular in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there emerged a multitude of biblical critics who dismissed the supposed historical authenticity of the holy texts. One of these critics with rudolf bultmann"s whose proposition of demythologizing scripture for true scriptural comprehension is one of the greatest to arise out of this era. This amazement with the natural world caused the. We now also know that the destruction of the earth is not soon as the new. Testament suggests but as scientists have predicted, around 5 billion years away. These conclusions caused bultmann to state that scripture needed to be corrected so that religion and science would not contradict each other and people could be both an intellectual and an adherent to a religion.
