to give the methods and models of natural science an application in the domain of history as well. Bultmann took this idea in a more general sense, insofar as he attributed a kind of dogmatic character to the so-called scientific worldview. He therefore took it for granted, for example, that miracles were unhistorical; the only remaining issue was to explain how the miracle narratives arose. On the one hand, the idea of the scientific world picture was vague and never thought out; on the other hand,