Abstract
Rudolf Bultmann was one of the leading thinkers within an influential theological direction that arose in Europe after the First World War, known as dialectical theology. Comprehensive introductions to the life and work of Bultmann in the South African theological journals, written in Afrikaans, either does not exist, or are difficult to trace for the Afrikaans readership. This article on Bultmann aims to fill the gap by offering a lexicographical contribution on the life and work of Bultmann. The focus of this article is on Bultmann as a Lutheran thinker. The theme of the New Testament and systematic theology is essentially the same, namely to explain the concept of Christian self-understanding as an eschatological event in which faith is expressed for the sake of faith in God and only in God. Bultmann explained the same theological concepts with his theology as those that were explained by the church reformers of the 16th century, but under radically new circumstances. The so-called modern and postmodern people of our time not only broke ties with the past, but in the process they also lost their ability for using historical-critical patterns of thought that tries to bridge historical distances, and therefore sacrificed all efforts to think systematically on the altar of relativism. We can learn from Bultmann what systematic reformed theology really is.
Highlights
Description: Dr Gafie van Wyk is participating in the research project, ‘Ecumenical creeds and Confessions’, directed by Dr Wim Dreyer, Department of Church History and Church Polity, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria
Rudolf Bultmann was one of the leading thinkers within an influential theological direction that arose in Europe after the First World War, known as dialectical theology
The theme of the New Testament and systematic theology is essentially the same, namely to explain the concept of Christian self-understanding as an eschatological event in which faith is expressed for the sake of faith in God and only in God
Summary
Die lewe en werk van Rudolf Bultmann (1884–1976): ʼn Leksikografiese bydrae tot Reformasie 500. Description: Dr Gafie van Wyk is participating in the research project, ‘Ecumenical creeds and Confessions’, directed by Dr Wim Dreyer, Department of Church History and Church Polity, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria. How to cite this article: Van Wyk, G.M.J., 2017, ‘Die lewe en werk van Rudolf Bultmann (1884–1976): ʼn Leksikografiese bydrae tot Reformasie 500’, HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies 73(1), a4593. Inligting uit die databasis van Sabinet, SA ePublications (https://journals.co.za) dui daarop dat omvattende oorsigtelike inligting oor die lewe en werk van Barth en Bultmann in die SuidAfrikaanse teologiese tydskrifte, in Afrikaans geskryf, óf nie bestaan nie, óf moeilik opspoorbaar is vir die Afrikaanse leserspubliek. Die fokus in die artikel is op Bultmann as Lutherse teoloog
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