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What's Bultmann's point, then? It's disclosed, I think, by the context of the above, which is framed – -- before and after – -- by these two statements: "Revelation does not provide this self-understanding . . . as a world view that one sees into, possesses, and applies. . . . Revelation does not mediate a world view, but rather addresses the individual as an existing self." In other words, revelation is addressed to the single individual as such, whereas a world view informs the rational mind, which is, in the nature of the case, not individual but general, universal. The proper response to a world view, accordingly, is to accept or reject it, to hold it to be true or to hold it to be false. But the proper response to revelation is to understand myself here and now in a new way.

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