New Testament Mythology and Other Basic Writings
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New Testament Mythology and Other Basic Writings
Aside from the fact that it is perhaps the
single most discussed and controversial
theological writing of the century, no one
knowledgeable of Bultmann's work could doubt
its basic importance for his entire
contribution. Although the position is for
which it argues was hardly new, having
already taken shape in several of his
theological essays written during the 1920s,
it is nevertheless the classic formulation
of this position and as such incomparable in
the Bultmann corpus.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800624422
- Dimensions 6 x 9
- Pages 192
- Publication Date October 1, 1984
Excerpts
Here, as in none of Bultmann's previously published writings, he reflects on the nature of theology itself as in its own way properly a science, thereby clarifying the methodological foundations of his whole theological approach.
— from the Preface
— from the Preface
Preface
Editor and translator Schubert M. Odgen describes some of the essays contained in this collection:
— from the Preface
- On the essay "New Testament and Mythology": Aside from the fact that it is perhaps the single most discussed and controversial theological writing of the century, no one knowledgeable of Bultmann's work could doubt its basic importance for his entire contribution. Although the position for which it argues was hardly new, having already taken shape in several of his theological essays written during the 1920s, it is nevertheless the classic formulation of this position and as such incomparable in the Bultmann corpus.
- On the essay "The Problem of Demythologizing": Next to "New Testament and Mythology" itself, none of Bultmann's writings is more important for clarifying what he does and does not mean by "myth" and "demythologizing" or for establishing existential interpretation as the appropriate hermeneutical principal for Christian theology.
- On the essay "The Problem of Hermeneutics": By directly addressing the most fundamental problem that his demand for demythologizing raises, at once surveying the modern history of the problem and proposing a constructive solution to it, this writing also shares fully in the basic importance of the programmatic essay.
- On the essay "Theology as Science": Here, as in none of Bultmann's previously published writings, he reflects on the nature of theology itself as in its own way properly a science, thereby clarifying the methodological foundations of his whole theological approach.
— from the Preface
Table of Contents
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Preface
New Testament and Mythology (1941)
Theology as Science (1941)
The Problem of Hermeneutics (1950)
On the Problem of Demythologizing (1952)
Science and Existence (1955)
Is Exegesis Without Presuppositions Possible? (1957)
On the Problem of Demythologizing (1961)
Index