Bultmann's approach relied on his concept of demythology, and interpreted the mythological elements in the New Testament existentially. Bultmann contended that only faith in the kerygma, or proclam…
The series is designed to be critical and historical commentary to the Bible without arbitrary limits in size or scope. It will utilize the full range of philological and historical tools including…
From Introduction by Robert W. Funk: "These essays 'are of signal importance in understanding not only the development of Bultmann's work but the course of New Testament scholarship as well, from t…
Modern study of the gospels owes a great deal to the pioneers of form criticism, two of whose works are presented in this volume.
The nature and meaning of history are arrestingly explored in this new book by one of Europe's great contemporary thinkers. The author presents a concise survey of what man has thought about his ow…
Our relationship to history is wholly different from our relationship to nature. Man, if he rightly understands himself, differentiates himself from nature...
The message of Jesus is a presupposition for the theology of the New Testament rather than a part of that theology itself. For New TEstament theology consists in the unfolding of those ideas by mea…