instinctively moved,[219] but to extrapolate from his personal sphere to all modernity suggests a major induction based on a comparatively small range of data—a move reminiscent of Hume. Such summary dismissal of the supernatural without appeal to satisfying contemporary philosophical arguments or concrete scientific data may have succeeded among those who shared the assumptions held by Bultmann’s mid-twentieth-century Western academic setting, but evidently does not satisfy most of those outside that fairly elite subculture.
