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History and eschatology : the presence of eternity : the 1955 Gifford lectures / Rudolf Bultmann. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, (c)1957.Description: xxi, 170 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781481311571
Other title:
  • History and eschatology
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  • BR115.B939.H578 2019
  • BR115
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Contents:
The problem of history and historicity -- The understanding of history in the era before Christ -- The understanding of history form the standpoint of eschatology -- The problem of eschatology (A) -- The problem of eschatology (B) -- Historicism and the naturalization of history -- The question of man in history -- The nature of history (A) -- The nature of history (B) -- Christian faith and history.
Subject: Rudolf Bultmann remains the most influential New Testament scholar of the twentieth century. He weds rigorous source and form criticism to an unrelenting historicism while still articulating a robust, challenging, and relevant theology. Bultmann's grand achievement is not that he convinced everyone. Rather, it is that his work still remains the measuring stick for the study of the New Testament and early Christianity. Bultmann was no mere historian, technical critic, or New Testament theologian. Bultmann's genius-and some think his Achilles heel-resides in his strategic use of existential philosophy as a means of interpreting the significance of Christianity. In History and Eschatology, first presented as the 1955 Gifford Lectures, Bultmann steps back to address larger philosophical questions about the relationship between history and the Christian future and then expands to consider how meaning exists within history. Bultmann begins with a discussion of ancient cyclical understandings of history before exploring the fundamental eschatological shift in historical understanding. Bultmann credits the Judeo-Christian tradition with reconceptualizing history as linear with a clear end, culminating in the second coming of Christ. But, as Bultmann argues, this new understanding of history was not without its own problems. The early church's profound disappointment in Christ's failure to return forced a Christian reinterpretation of history-a teleological one-that flourished in the Renaissance and eventuated, surprisingly, in Marxism. According to Bultmann, this teleology neglects the individual's participation in the Christ event. In the end, Bultmann draws on Paul and John to challenge this purely teleological approach and ground a Christian understanding of history and eschatology in the historical event of Christ that is both timeless and immediately present. Only through this Christ event, both in the past and future, does life find eternal meaning. https://www.amazon.com/History-Eschatology-Presence-Rudolf-Bultmann/dp/1481311573/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=9781481311571&qid=1573865988&s=books&sr=1-1
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"Originally published in the United States by Harper & Brothers in 1957 under the title The Presence of Eternity"--Title page verso.

The problem of history and historicity -- The understanding of history in the era before Christ -- The understanding of history form the standpoint of eschatology -- The problem of eschatology (A) -- The problem of eschatology (B) -- Historicism and the naturalization of history -- The question of man in history -- The nature of history (A) -- The nature of history (B) -- Christian faith and history.

Rudolf Bultmann remains the most influential New Testament scholar of the twentieth century. He weds rigorous source and form criticism to an unrelenting historicism while still articulating a robust, challenging, and relevant theology. Bultmann's grand achievement is not that he convinced everyone. Rather, it is that his work still remains the measuring stick for the study of the New Testament and early Christianity. Bultmann was no mere historian, technical critic, or New Testament theologian. Bultmann's genius-and some think his Achilles heel-resides in his strategic use of existential philosophy as a means of interpreting the significance of Christianity. In History and Eschatology, first presented as the 1955 Gifford Lectures, Bultmann steps back to address larger philosophical questions about the relationship between history and the Christian future and then expands to consider how meaning exists within history. Bultmann begins with a discussion of ancient cyclical understandings of history before exploring the fundamental eschatological shift in historical understanding. Bultmann credits the Judeo-Christian tradition with reconceptualizing history as linear with a clear end, culminating in the second coming of Christ. But, as Bultmann argues, this new understanding of history was not without its own problems. The early church's profound disappointment in Christ's failure to return forced a Christian reinterpretation of history-a teleological one-that flourished in the Renaissance and eventuated, surprisingly, in Marxism. According to Bultmann, this teleology neglects the individual's participation in the Christ event. In the end, Bultmann draws on Paul and John to challenge this purely teleological approach and ground a Christian understanding of history and eschatology in the historical event of Christ that is both timeless and immediately present. Only through this Christ event, both in the past and future, does life find eternal meaning.

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