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Theologians have discoursed over and offered various interpretations on the nature, function, method and scope of New Testament theology. Many of these approaches have resulted in tension and confusion amongst scholars and students. Gerhard Hasel addresses this situation with an in-depth discussion of the basic issues of the debate. Beginning with a comprehensive survey of the emergence and...

voluminous61 that we limit ourselves, at the risk of a one-sided presentation, to but a few representative remarks taken from Bultmann’s original essay of 1941 entitled “New Testament and Mythology” and his more recent Jesus Christ and Mythology (1958). Bultmann defines: “Demythologizing is an hermeneutic method, that is, a method of interpretation, of exegesis.”62 Demythologizing as a method of interpretation is needed because “the cosmology of the New Testament is essentially mythical in character.
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