of their roles within this eschatological kosmos, not in order to engage in “cosmological speculation,” nor “to explain terrifying or gruesome phenomena or to relieve men of responsibility and guilt.”60 In other words, Bultmann did not believe that Paul’s statements about the spiritual powers could be mined for cosmological information, since his statements were mythological rather than cosmological in nature. Nor could human failure be excused by appeal to the powers, though humanity remained enslaved