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...mountains, all this tentative groping for God in human experience may seem unnecessary. The man-centered approach to God runs against Earth's warning that a "God" found in human depths may be an imagined idol?or a neurosis that could be dissolved on the psychiatrist's couch. Rudolf Bultmann answers that these human situations of anxiety and discernment represent "transformations of God," and are the only way that secular man is likely to experience any sense of the eternal and unconditional...
...Situation ethics" is rapidly gaining ground in U.S. divinity schools as a way of systematic thinking about morality, and it claims an impressive array of advocates. In Europe it has found a home in the thinking of Karl Earth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Rudolf Bultmann. Its chief American exponents include Paul Lehmann of Union Theological Seminary, James Gustafson of Yale, and Joseph Fletcher of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. In a recent issue of Commonweal, and in a book called Situation Ethics that Westminster will publish this spring, Fletcher offers a lively, readable defense and definition of this...
...Billy Graham. The leading Evangelical theologians include Dr. Carl Henry, editor of Christianity Today, Cornelius Van Til of Westminster Theological Seminary, and Dean Kenneth S. Kantzer of the Trinity Evangelical School at Deerfield, Ill. They use the tools of modern Biblical scholarship, and read such progressive theologians as Rudolf Bultmann and Reinhold Niebuhr. But the Evangelicals insist that nothing is outdated about the traditional theological language of the church, or about belief in the Bible as the inspired word of God. "Once a person begins to doubt the accuracy of the Bible," says Kantzer, "he is on his way toward...
...historical problem of the life of Jesus, as tackled by scholars from David Friedrich Strauss in 1835 to Albert Schweitzer and De-Mythologizer Rudolf Bultmann, is that the evidence for the empty tomb and the Resurrection comes from divergent Gospel accounts. Bultmann asserted that the Resurrection is not a historical event and is "nothing other than faith in the cross as the salvation event." Schweitzer rejected both the empty tomb and the Resurrection as legendary, stressing that they were unnecessary to the truths proclaimed by Jesus in his teachings. Schonfield claims that as a Jew he has no need...
...East Hampton, Long Island, near the seashore that Tillich always loved. His unpretentious dignity and gentle warmth made friends and admirers for him wherever he moved-but in recent years the seminarians and younger theologians have not been reading him as they used to. More fashionable these days are Bultmann and Bonhoeffer; coming up fast are the "Death of God" theologians (TIME, Oct. 22), whose abandonment of even a symbolic view of God seemed to Tillich to be going...