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The mission of demythologizing Rudolf Bultmann's dialectical theology
- Title
- The mission of demythologizing [electronic resource] : Rudolf Bultmann's dialectical theology / David W. Congdon.
- Author
- Congdon, David W.
- Publication
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
- Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2015]
Details
- Additional Authors
- Project Muse.
- Description
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (xxxiii, 953 pages))
- Summary
- Since 1941, Rudolf Bultmann's program of demythologizing has been the subject of constant debate, widely held to indicate Bultmann's departure from the dialectical theology he once shared with Karl Barth. In the 1950s, Barth referred to their relationship as that of a whale and an elephant: incapable of meaningful communication. This study proposes a contrary reading of demythologizing as the hermeneutical fulfillment of dialectical theology on the basis of a reinterpretation of Barth's theological project. As such, the volume argues that dialectical theology is fundamentally governed by a missionary logic. Bultmann's hermeneutical theology extends this dialectical, missionary theology into the field of interpretation. Contrary to many critics, the message of God's saving work in Christ, and not modern science, funds Bultmann's hermeneutical program. Like Barth's own revolution, Bultmann's program addresses a false relation between gospel and culture. Negatively, demythologizing is a program of deconstantinizing, opposing the objectifying conflation of kerygma and culture that he calls "myth." Positively, demythologizing is a form of intercultural hermeneutics, composed of preunderstanding and self-understanding. Demythologizing is therefore a missionary hermeneutic of intercultural translation.
- Uniform Title
- Mission of demythologizing (Online)
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Mission of demythologizing (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 865-921) and index.
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- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Abbreviations -- A note on translation -- Introduction : Bultmann, missionary to modernity -- The myth of the whale and the elephant -- The problem : the mythical picture of Bultmann -- Reinterpreting the myth : a periodization of the Barth-Bultmann relationship -- The mission of dialectical theology -- The Missionary essence of dialectical theology -- The mission of Bultmann's dialectical theology -- The mission of demythologizing -- The truth of myth and the necessity of demythologizing -- Toward a dialectical intercultural hermeneutic -- The problem of myth and the program of deconstantinizing -- Eschatological existence and existentialist translation -- Conclusion : the future of demythologizing -- Appendix A. Appeal of German churchmen and professors to Protestant Christians in foreign lands (1914) -- Appendix B. The Christian meaning of faith, love, hope (1925) -- Appendix C. Leitsätze of Rudolf Bultmann (1925) -- Appendix D. On the concept of "myth" (1942-1952).
- OCLC
- ssj0001502634
- Author
- Congdon, David W.
- Title
- The mission of demythologizing [electronic resource] : Rudolf Bultmann's dialectical theology / David W. Congdon.
- Imprint
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2015] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 865-921) and index.
- Access
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Project Muse.
- Other Form:
- Print version: 1451487924 9781451487923