Word: bultmann
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Thanks to Theologian Rudolf Bultmann ["Christianity and Myth," Sept. 24] for publicly pulling down some of our teetering tenets. Thanks for allowing to come into our minds the clean, fresh breath...
...obvious that Rudolf Bultmann is as incapable of writing a correct analysis of God's Word as a Communist would be of writing a correct treatise on how to tell the truth...
Hark ! The herald angels sing "Bultmann is the latest thing." At least, they would if he had not Demythologized...
What, then, is left of Christianity? The saving act of God, answers Bultmann, which is what the New Testament really represents, and for which he uses the theologian's Greek word, kerygma. The problem is to free the kerygma from its encrustation of myth so that modern man can grasp...
Just published in the U.S. is a new Bultmann book: Primitive Christianity (Living Age; $1.25). Readers will find in it Bultmann the historian rather than Bultmann the revolutionary; lucidly and briefly he takes them through the Old Testament background, 1st century Judaism, the Greek influences on the early church. But in the last section of the book, dealing directly with primitive Christianity, demythologization is seen at work. Again and again Bultmann attributes to Gnostic influences what orthodox interpreters assign to essential Christian teaching. The problem of the future and the end of the world, which has come...