Demythologize

The task, if possible, of trying to separate and remove what are supposed to be mythological elements of any religious belief.

The early 20th Cent saw a movement, centered around the German theologian Rudolf Bultmann, who thought that the Christian faith was encrusted with concepts (such as the resurrection) which no longer—in their opinion—made sense in the modern scientific age. These mythic elements must, therefore, be removed is Christianity was to remain relevant. Inevitably, such attempts had only succeeded in re-encrusting the faith in new scientific-sounding myths of the demythologizers' making.