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...water turned into wine. But what is science-minded man to make of the Bible? How can he extract its real meaning for today from a hard-to-swallow supernatural framework? These are not easy questions, and lately they have been getting a rather hard answer from Dr. Rudolf Bultmann's Marburg Disciples (TiME, June 21), who dominate German theology the way the Russians rule chess. They call their answer "the new hermeneutic...
...Darwin-hating Baptists of the early 20th century attacked modernism with simple faith and simple anathemas. The evangelical conservatives, by contrast, strive for a consistent, logical theology; their best-known writers-such as Editor Carl Henry of Christianity Today and Cornelius Van Til of Westminster Theological Seminary-challenge Barth, Bultmann and Tillich on the ground that these men propose as truth personal heresies and unwarranted distinctions that are incompatible with essential Biblical faith and Protestant tradition...
...theological vocabulary-except perhaps to some followers of Paul Tillich who prefer the phrase "Ground of Being." Tillich has provided a whole glossary of terms for modern theological table talk, including "religious atheism"; many more come from such equally fertile German word-coiners as Karl Barth, Rudolf Bultmann and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Whenever possible, theological jargon words are used in their German form. Heilsgeschichte, for example, is more learned than salvation history, and it is definitely one up to say Angst instead of anxiety or Wissenschaft instead of discipline. Says Dr. Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford: "You never refer to Barth...
...used to be 'atmosphere.' Then it became 'climate.' Now it's 'posture.' " Because Karl Barth's influence is generally on the wane in the U.S., the word "encounter"-meaning man's confrontation with God-is now slightly old hat. Bultmann's "demythologizing"-meaning to strip the Gospel message of its nonfactual elements-is still very much In, as are the provocative terms coined in a Nazi prison by Bonhoeffer during World War II-"holy worldliness," "religionless Christianity," "cheap grace." But sometimes words lose favor when they are used too often...
...church politician but a pastor, a father-in-God whose task is less to change the world now, and more to prepare men's hearts and minds for Christ's coming. Although he reads and absorbs such radical theo logians as Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Ru dolf Bultmann, he preaches an oldfashioned, timeless spirituality that echoes the language of the Authorized Version. "By sophisticated attempts to be contemporary at all costs," he said once, "we blunt the force that lies in the universal imagery of the Bible: bread, water, light, darkness, wind, fire, rain, hunger, thirst, eat, drink, walk...