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...Theology, calls this latest vogue "a new quest of the historical Jesus." Surprisingly enough, the quest has been undertaken not by Christian conservatives eager to save Jesus from scientific attack, but by the radical, skeptical disciples of a German Lutheran scholar whom many regard as an arch-heretic: Rudolf Bultmann, 78, retired professor of New Testament studies at the University of Marburg...
...principal charge against the Biblical scholars is that they use in New Testament studies a technique called "form criticism," which was developed during the 1920s by such German Protestants as Martin Dibelius and Rudolf Bultmann...
Borrowed Blend. Honest to God is a blend of ideas borrowed from some of the century's most provocative Protestant theologians. Like German Biblical Critic Rudolf Bultmann, Robinson regards the virgin birth and the heaven-above-hell-below framework of Scripture as religious myths; he argues that the essential Gospel message must be "demythologized" by liberating it from antiquated supernatural language. Rejecting the Biblical image of a transcendent God in the sky, Robinson suggests that Christians think of God the way Existentialist Theologian Paul Tillich does: as the "ground of all being...
...Barth, Bultmann, Bonhoeffer. The familiar names of contemporary theology-Tillich, Barth. the two Niebuhrs-remain the intellectual staples of the seminaries, but some students feel that there is not enough communication between U.S. and European theologians, and Robert B. Shepard Jr., 27, a senior at Southern California School of Theology, complains of "a serious lag in American theological thought...
...Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, the students and faculty are caught up in a long-running debate on the value of West Germany's Rudolf Bultmann and his "demythologizing" of the Gospels. Another thinker in vogue is Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a theologian of Christian ethics who was killed by the Nazis in 1945. Recently at Cambridge Episcopal, five students asked the faculty to organize a special course on Bonhoeffer. Students also get absorbed in ecumenicism. Episcopal has a seminar comparing recent Anglican and Roman Catholic theology, and students from Union and the Catholic Maryknoll Fathers' seminary at Ossining...