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Bultmann, Rudolf
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Bultmann, Rudolf (Karl)

(born Aug. 20, 1884, Wiefelstede, Ger.—died July 30, 1976, Marburg, W.Ger.) German Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar. The son of a Lutheran pastor, he studied at the University of Tübingen and later taught many years at Marburg (1921–51). He established his reputation with his analysis of the Gospels in History of the Synoptic Tradition (1921). Influenced by his colleague Martin Heidegger, he held that Christian faith should focus less on the historical Jesus and more on the transcendent Christ, and he examined the New Testament in mythical terms. During the Nazi era he supported the anti-Nazi Confessing Church. His postwar books included Kerygma and Myth (1953), History and Eschatology (1957), and Jesus Christ and Mythology (1960).



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Within Christian biblical scholarship the dominance of the 'Religionsgeschite' approach, found in Rudolf Bultmann especially but also some of his disciples such as Ernst Kasemann and Helmut Kosester, has significantly receded.
For Rudolf Bultmann, as for the early Barth, historical criticism could not provide a basis for faith, since faith cannot have any objective basis.
This existential turn is one familiar to German New Testament scholar and theologian Rudolf Bultmann and his disciples.
 
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