his own in his conception of the “Easter Faith.” “With many scholars” Bultmann “holds the opinion that Jesus awaited the kingdom of God in the near future.” Such a conception was mythical of course. Was it right to hold on to this mythical conception “in order then to hang on it the problem of the ‘delay’ of the parousia?” Is something negative, something which could never come to pass, supposed to have brought the whole development into action? With what right does one elevate over against that