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...early 19th century, similarly sifting the New Testament for evidence of the flesh-and-blood Nazarene beneath the "myths." Often their Jesus turned out to be an inspirational preacher who bore a suspicious resemblance to a 19th century German. But by the 20th century, the great Protestant critic Rudolf Bultmann of Marburg University had concluded that such quests were fruitless. The Bible is so much an article of faith, so laden with unprovable events and legends, he contended in 1926, that "we can now know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus...
...years since Bultmann, who died in 1976, scholarship has been sharply divided. His Protestant heirs continue to view the New Testament as a seriously flawed historical document. Even Catholic scholars have moved toward this theory since the Vatican modified its traditionally strict view of the accuracy of the Gospels with a 1943 encyclical and a 1964 instruction allowing broader use of higher criticism...
...same time, however, other scholars are going in the opposite direction, turning away from skepticism toward a renewed acceptance of much of what the New Testament postulates about Jesus and his teaching. The impetus comes in part from new evidence. As a matter of principle, Bultmann never visited the sites in the Holy Land and totally neglected the influence of Jewish culture on Jesus -- "a bad old German tradition with dangerous results," according to Martin Hengel of the University of Tubingen in West Germany. Hengel and his colleagues, and scholars elsewhere, are now reversing that anti-Semitic tradition, discovering that...
...Washington Reporter Jim Castelli was once religion editor of the Washington Star. Reporter-Researcher Michael Harris attended a Roman Catholic seminary for five years, and taught ancient and medieval philosophy, Latin and Greek at another seminary for three. New York Correspondent Bruce van Voorst has interviewed theologians from Rudolf Bultmann to Hans Küng, while Chicago Correspondent J. Madeleine Nash covered the final days of Bernardin's controversial predecessor, the late John Cardinal Cody. Says she: "After the remoteness of the old-style bishops, Bernardin seems refreshingly approachable...
Died. Rudolf Bultmann, 92, one of Europe's most influential Protestant theologians; in Marburg, Germany. The last survivor of a generation of giants that included Karl Earth and Paul Tillich, Bultmann sought a radical way to make Christianity meaningful to modern man. His seminal notion, "demythologizing," rejected any quest for the historical Jesus; events like the Resurrection, he said, were "myths" believable only in a nonscientific age. They thus detracted from the "kerygma" the existential moral truths that Jesus, and Christianity, represent...