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.