A Historical Critical Analysis of Rudolf Bultmann\u27s Form Criticism as Related to his Demythologization

The primary purpose of this thesis is to delineate Bultmann\u27s method or hermeneutics in treating the New Testament, in particular his principles of Form Criticism and Demythologization. Bultmann is a many-sided man. He has been concerned with almost every topic and emphasis which theology has to offer today. He is an exegete, theologian, historian, linguist, philosopher, preacher, lecturer, and professor. As one man has said, He knows everything and seems to have written on most everything. A. list of his works, appended to this thesis, will support this statement. Moreover , he has never stood still, and even now some of his views may be on the move