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Rudolf Bultmann and the Individualised Moment of Revelation (5450 words) |
 | Bultmann is famous for his comment that modern ‘man’ (a term he intended inclusively) cannot legitimately recconcile possession of the ‘wireless’ and the ‘light-bulb’ with belief in the miracles of New Testament. |
| Consequently, Bultmann draws a sharp contrast between the biblical thought-world and that of contemporaneity and consequently attempted a hermeneutic of ‘demythologisation’ of the concepts into contemporary thought-forms (for Bultmann, this was existentialism). |
| Bultmann therefore asserts that eschatology in the sense of a universal change in nature and history must be discarded, because it is part of a past mythical world-view. |
| Radical Faith - exploring faith in a changed world (2045 words) |
| Bultmann was the eldest son of a German Lutheran pastor - and became, with Karl Barth and a few others, one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century. |
| Bultmann and Barth were probably the two theologians who in the 20th century contributed most to the prevailing consensus held by both Catholic and Protestant that it is in and through the ecclesia (the church), as it searches and responds to reality, that the truth about the meaning of life is to be discovered. |
| Ironically, Bultmann's stand seems to have contributed to a resurgence of interest in the Jesus of history - a quest long put on the back burner by those who were swamped by the Bultmannian and Barthian reliance on the refuge of faith. |
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