Rudolf Bultmann: The Morning After Kristallnacht

As related by Kurt Anders Richardson on FB- Some years ago as a visiting prof at Uni Marburg theologische Fakultaet, I was told several times by different people about a certain non-lecture event. On the morning after that first Nazi pogrom, “Kristallnacht”, the regular lecture of Rudolf Bultmann was to take place. His usual hall […]

Bultmann Quote on Bultmann Day

Versteht man unter »von Gott« reden »über Gott« reden, so hat solches Reden überhaupt keinen Sinn; denn in dem Moment, wo es geschieht, hat es seinen Gegenstand, Gott, verloren. – Rudolf Bultmann

Rudolf Bultmann: Scholar of Faith

Here’s a great essay for your reading pleasure: Rudolf Bultmann — who died on July 30, 1976 at the advanced age of 91 — was the last of the theological giants who grew up in the universities of the Kaiser’s Germany (he began to study theology in 1903 at 19), and the last of the […]

Bultmann Quote On Bultmann Day

Voraussetzungslose Exegese kann es nicht geben. … Unabdingliche Voraussetzung aber ist die historische Methode in der Befragung der Texte. Exegese ist ja als Interpretation historischer Texte ein Stück Geschichtswissenschaft. – Rudolf Bultmann

The Best Introduction To Bultmann

Decades ago Morris Ashcraft wrote the definitive exposition of the theology of Rudolf Bultmann.  It also went out of print decades ago and became a classic in the meanwhile. Hendrickson has, thankfully, republished this masterpiece in paperback and made it once more easily available. How can modern scientific humanity understand the strange religious language of […]

Makers of the Modern Theological Mind: Rudolf Bultmann

Decades ago Morris Ashcraft wrote the definitive exposition of the theology of Rudolf Bultmann.  It also went out of print decades ago and became a classic in the meanwhile. Hendrickson has, thankfully, republished this masterpiece in paperback and made it once more easily available. How can modern scientific humanity understand the strange religious language of […]

Bultmann: A Man Of Courage

As related by Kurt Anders Richardson on FB- Some years ago as a visiting prof at Uni Marburg theologische Fakultaet, I was told several times by different people about a certain non-lecture event. On the morning after that first Nazi pogrom, “Kristallnacht”, the regular lecture of Rudolf Bultmann was to take place. His usual hall […]

The Two Best Books About Bultmann

The best biography of Bultmann is that of Konrad Hammann (and it’s better in German).  Particularly important is his discussion of Bultmann during the era of the Second World War. The best short study of Bultmann’s theology is Gareth Jones’s “Bultmann: Towards a Critical Theology“.  This book has not received the very wide attention it […]