This collection contains Bultmann's famous essay, 'New Testament and Myth-

ology, which, like Harnack's What Is Christianity? and Barth's Epistle to the

Romans, has proved to be one of the turning points in the theological debates of our century. It also contains some essays by Bultmann's critics with his own rejoinders, so that the whole controversy over Demythologizing is brought before us in miniature. This is the kind of book that no serious student of contempo- rary theology can be without."

-JOHN MACQUARRIE

"...the debate, initiated by Professor Bultmann, is about something that con cerns everyone who has the task of communicating the Gospel to the modern world. When Bultmann speaks of the 'mythological element in the New Testa- ment, he is really referring to all the language that aims at characterizing Gospel history like any other history.... The debate, the main contributions to which are here reproduced, constantly raises issues of major importance." -J. A. T. ROBINSON