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(1884–1976)

German religious thinker who worked mainly at Marburg, and was influenced by Heidegger . He is famous for a ‘demythologizing’ approach to religion, arguing that Christianity needs no commitment either to the historical claims of the Bible or to the myths that may be found there. Although Bultmann does not embrace it, the natural consequence of this seems to shrink religious commitment to a purely personal stance lacking the objective ambitions of traditional religion.