Rudolf Bultmann Eine Biographie (German Edition) - Hardcover

Hammann, Konrad

9783161502040: Rudolf Bultmann Eine Biographie (German Edition)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3161502043 ISBN 13: 9783161502040

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck, 2009

Rudolf Bultmann was one of the few independent thinkers in Protestant theology in the 20th century. He exhibited great skill in combining historical reconstruction with a topical interpretation of the New Testament, and tried to overcome the crisis of historicism with the hermeneutic concept of existential interpretation. With his controversial program of demythologization, he demonstrated the advantages of Christianity's claim to truth in comparison with the modern concept of reality.

To mark Bultmann's 125th birthday on August 20, 2009, the time has come to study his amazingly consistent journey through life and his way of thinking. With the aid of previously unused material from the archives, Konrad Hammann places Bultmann's life and works in the context of his time, of the theological and interdisciplinary discourses and of the political conflicts of the epoch.

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