On The Correlation Involving the Historical Aspect of the Scripture and Its Logos Character between Kerygma and the Demythologization Process in Rudolf Bultmann According To Paul Ricoeur

Abstract

By correlating the historical aspect of Scripture and its status as logos, Rudolf Bultmann introduces an exegetical-hermeneutic procedure based on the historical-critical research of Scripture and imposes the interpretation of logos as kerygma in a process that involves the overlapping possibilities of knowledge in a given historical-cultural context and implies the need to correspond to the cosmovision of the current topicality. Thus, based on Paul Ricoeur's critical analysis, the article focuses on demythologization as a distinction between kerygma and myth in a movement that overlaps the mythological artifice and converges to the questioning of its original meaning through a process that, after all, requires its permanence under the horizon of interpretation. The article points out that Ricoeur shows that Bultmann dispenses with reflection involving the lato sensu language as an object, superimposing the language of faith on the language of myth in a movement that, although intending to supersede the sacrificium intellectus, ultimately converges towards a construction that tends to demand the sacrificium intellectus in the frontiers of demythologization and in the language of the faith that is involved in its process.