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Theology as Hermeneutics

Rudolf Bultmann's Interpretation of the History of Jesus

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Theology as Hermeneutics

Rudolf Bultmann's Interpretation of the History of Jesus

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Rudolf Bultmann was the most significant New Testament scholar we have known in the twentieth century. This study approaches his work arguing that his theology can only be understood correctly as an interpretation of the New Testament. Naturally it is a twentieth-century interpretation involving complex hermeneutical questions. But it is the New Testament which provides the subject matter to be interpreted. Bultmann's theology, stemming from the conviction that the New Testament addresses the present age, offers important solutions to many problems for Christian theology in our materialistic, relativist, pluralistic age. The book introduces the reader to: Bultmann's theology; the problem of contemporary New Testament hermeneutics; the problems of New Testament theology; the question of the relation of New Testament theology to theology as such. It makes a necessary critique of simplistic modes of interpreting Bultmann, and shows a masterly hand in assessing his continuing significance.

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Jan 29 2015
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 272
ISBN 9781474231664
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Series Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Biblical Studies
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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John Painter

John Painter is Professor of Theology at St. Mark'…

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