Rudolf Bultmann: A Companion to His Theology (Cascade Companions) by Congdon David W

Author:Congdon, David W.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2016-01-25T00:00:00+00:00

125. For an excellent discussion of the kerygma within Bultmann’s New Testament theology, see Kay, Christus Praesens, 48–60.

126. The verb κηρύσσειν (kerussein, to proclaim) appears over sixty times in various forms, but this is a generic word referring to any act of proclaiming or preaching. The nominal form is more distinctive.

127. Ebeling, “Kerygma,” 516.

128. Bultmann and Heidegger, Briefwechsel, 186.

129. This is perhaps most strikingly illustrated in the Gospel of Mark, where the word only appears in the later addition of Mark 16:8: “And afterward Jesus himself sent out through them, from east to west, the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation.” This suggests that the word is associated with the official church teaching regarding Christ as the messiah of God. Bultmann uses the word with this precise meaning in mind.

130. TNT, 1:3, 33.

131. Ibid., 1:3.

132. Ibid., 1:33.

133. In this early period, Christianity is best understood as a sect within Judaism in distinction from the developing rabbinic Judaism.

134. TNT, 1:34.

135. Ibid., 1:43.

136. See ibid., 1:293–94.

137. Ibid., 1:42.

138. Schmithals, “Nachwort,” 155.

139. Bultmann, “Christology,” 263.

140. Ibid.

141. Ibid., 267. Emphasis mine.

142. Ibid.

143. Ibid., 276–77.

144. Ibid., 279.

145. Ibid., 278.

146. See Congdon, “Trinitarian Shape,” 245–46.

147. Ebeling, “Kerygma,” 517.

148. See LW, 1:54.

149. Ebeling, Theology and Proclamation, 43; cf. Ebeling, “Word of God,” 313–14.

150. TNT, 1:307, rev.

151. The word “theology,” for Bultmann, is an umbrella category that includes everything from the theological claims in Paul’s epistles to church proclamation to the work of the systematic theologian.

152. Bultmann and Heidegger, Briefwechsel, 186.

153. CD 1.1:98–140.

154. Bultmann, “Christology,” 280–81, rev.

155. Bultmann, “New Testament,” 1.

156. TNT, 2:239, rev. This passage is from a 1950 essay on “The Problem of the Relation of Theology and Proclamation in the New Testament,” included as an epilogue to his Theology of the New Testament.

157. Bultmann and Heidegger, Briefwechsel, 186.

158. Bultmann, “Christology,” 280, rev.

159. Bultmann and Heidegger, Briefwechsel, 186.

160. As he says, “neither Paul’s theology and christology nor that of any other Christian thinker can be understood uncritically,” precisely because “every theological exposition of the saving event and of the Christian’s existence is constructed with the use of contemporary conceptions” (Bultmann, “Christology,” 279–80).

161. Rowe, “Kerygma,” 33; Meeks, “Problem,” 221.

162. Buri, “Entmythologisierung,” 85–101; Ogden, Christ, 110.

163. Bultmann, “Primitive Christian Kerygma,” 41, rev.

164. Bultmann, “Arier-Paragraph,” 365.

165. Bultmann, “On the Problem,” 112. Emphasis mine.

166. Bultmann, “Theology as Science,” 57.

167. Bultmann, “Problem of Hermeneutics,” 74.

168. Ibid., 75.

169. Bultmann, “Problem of ‘Natural Theology,’” 315.

170. Ibid., 317.

171. Bultmann, “Problem of Hermeneutics,” 87.

172. Bultmann, “Protestant Theology,” 333.

173. Ibid., 333–34.

174. Bultmann, “On the Problem,” 113.

175. There are similarities worth exploring between Bultmann and Karl Rahner’s concept of “anonymous Christian” and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s concept of “unconscious Christianity.” For more on those latter views, see Kelly, “Unconscious Christianity.”

176. Bultmann, “Problem of ‘Natural Theology,’” 322.

177. Ibid.

178. Bultmann, we should note, was a firm opponent of every universalism, Christian or otherwise, because of the way universalisms speak in the abstract about humanity as such. For this reason, universalism is impossible on the soil of dialectical theology, at least as Bultmann understands it, which can only speak of God in connection to the concrete historicity of the person whom God affects and encounters.

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