What did Rudolf Bultmann believe about Jesus?

Bultmann argued that all that matters is the “thatness”, not the “whatness” of Jesus, i.e. only that Jesus existed, preached, and died by crucifixion matters, not what happened throughout his life.

What did Bultmann believe?

Bultmann’s theology Christian faith, he asserted, is faith in the kērygma (“proclamation”) of the church, into which Jesus may be said to be risen (Bultmann’s understanding of the Resurrection), and not faith in the historical Jesus.

Is Bultmann a heideggerian theologian?

Ever since the 1920s, Rudolf Bultmann has been charged with confining theology to philosophy, owing to his naïve adoption of Martin Heidegger’s existentialist ontology. Bultmann’s personal friendship with Heidegger is well-known, and the presence of Heideggerian concepts throughout his work is impossible to miss.

Why did the Post Bultmannians reject Bultmann’s views?

Why did the “post-Bultmanns” reject Bultmann’s views? Bultmann was accused of espousing modern Gnosticism. What are some of the current emphases in the search for Jesus? Is there any way to integrate faith and research in analyzing Jesus as a historical figure?

What does Rudolf Bultmann mean by existentialism?

Existentialism and the Existentialist Interpretation of Scripture. In general, Bultmann uses the word “existential” to refer to an individual human being experiencing his or her own existence and making choices that determine his or her future. As such, the word refers to a concrete event within the life of the existent person.

What did Rudolf Bultmann say about the concept of myth?

Rudolf Bultmann, “On the Concept of Myth.” Published in David W. Congdon, The Mission of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann’s Dialectical Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2015), 853-863, here, 853.

How is Rudolf Bultmann related to hermeneutics?

See here Congdon, “Demystifying the Program of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann’s Theological Hermeneutics,” HTR 110 (2017): 1-23, here, 6-7. They do not seem to overlap in any way for Bultmann.

What did Rudolf Bultmann say about salvation and eternity?

Bultmann said about salvation and eternity: “As from now on there are only believers and unbelievers, so there are also now only saved and lost, those who have life and those who are in death.” Bultmann carried Form criticism so far as to call the historical value of the gospels into serious question.