We're very pleased to announce that the good folks at Baylor University Press are providing a copy of Beyond Bultmann: Reckoning a New Testament Theology (eds. Bruce W. Longenecker and Mikael C. Parsons) for us to giveaway! If you want to win this book, and you know you do, you can enter by (1) leaving a comment saying you want to enter, (2) signing up to follow the Jesus Blog and leaving a comment saying you did, (3) sharing this post on social media and leaving a comment saying you did, and/or (4) sharing in the comments your favorite anecdote about Bultmann or studying Bultmann. We'll tally the comments up and let the random number generator give us a winner.
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ReplyDeleteMike regularly reminds me that I'm 6 degrees removed from studying under Bultmann (Bird, Strelan, Lattke, Kasemann, Butlmann)
ReplyDeleteOf course I would misspell 'Bultmann' in my haste to enter a comp for a book on Bultmann.
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ReplyDeleteI brewed a German Oktoberfest/Marzen and called it Bultmannbier.
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ReplyDeleteDespite Le Donne's wish that we read Bultmann himself (which I did!) - it would be really nice to get this volume ....
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ReplyDeleteAnd the reason why is I literally just finished reading the collection of Bultmann's demythologizing essays (New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings) last night. I liked what I read, and I'd be interested in responses that both take him seriously and adapt his views for the postmodern age in which we now live.
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ReplyDeleteI want to enter, most definitely. I went from thinking of Bultmann as the nefarious arch-heretic, to actually reading him, and discovering that his honest discussion of myth as part of the worldview of pre-scientific people was simply a statement of a problem all honest readers of the Bible wrestle with, and that he was driven by a concern not to undermine Christian faith but to communicate it effectively to modern people. I know a theologian who became an atheist in seminary and whose faith was saved by reading Bultmann. And were it not for Bultmann connecting John's Gospel with the Mandaeans, my work on the latter subject would probably never have come about.
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4) Whilst at QUB I was studying latin american theology. During my research on liberation theology I stumbled across a small essay written by then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The essay was titled Presupuestos, problemas y desafíos de la Teología de la Liberación, which roughly translates to Presumptions, problems and challenges of Liberation Theology. In it, Cardinal Ratzinger placed the responsibility of such socialist movement, and other non orthodox theologies, squarely in the shoulders of Bultmann himself. I've had heard of him before but not taken him serious, but after reading the essay and finding that this German Protestant theologian was at the centre of a Latin American Catholic theological storm, I had to learn more of him.
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ReplyDelete4.) I once saw Bultmann and Elvis discussing theology at a remote gas station in northern Canada.
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ReplyDeleteI've not read as much of Bultmann as perhaps I should, so I shall seek to remedy that--anyone have a copy of his mythology and the NT they don't want?!?
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ReplyDeleteHere's my favorite Bultmann anecdote. When I took one of Stuhlmacher's seminars we had to take turns writing the protocol together with another student in the class. This was a bit intimidating but manageable. One day the topic of writing protocols came up and Stuhlmacher said something like, Bultmann used to announce at the END of the seminar who had been responsible to write the protocol, which I can only assume was information mediated to him via Käsemann. That's how I remember it anyway and I remember it leaving me with a certain sense of awe in relation to the great Bultmann.
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ReplyDelete2) Favorite Bultmann anecdote: He was invited to lecture at Yale and stayed (I think) with Paul Schubert at his home in Bethany. Schubert’s neighbor Robert Calhoun, who taught historical theology at Yale, also raised chickens and sold eggs. So one afternoon during the visit as Schubert and Bultmann were having tea, Calhoun knocked on the door and came in dressed like a farmer to deliver eggs. Schubert introduced him to Bultmann, and Calhoun asked a question about the implications of the Chalcedonian Definition for study of the historical Jesus. After a few minutes of discussion, Calhoun excused himself to make the rest of his deliveries. When Calhoun had left, Bultmann turned to Schubert and said, “You have an unusually well informed egg man.”
This typical pronouncement story is multiply attested, and if it isn’t true it should be.
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ReplyDeleteAt Duke, Moody Smith once mentioned in class that he had read some Bultmann that morning during his "quiet time". This got a noticeable reaction from the more conservative students in the class (esp. the few undergrads) who thought of Bultmann as the last person one would want to read during "quiet time".
ReplyDeleteWould love to have the Beyond Bultmann book. Have been a regular reader of the blog for over a year now, and have bought and read several of your books. davidchumney@bellsouth.net (not really very anonymous, huh?)
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Also, I like to say that I recently read 'Jesus against the scribal elite': great study, Chris.
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ReplyDeleteFavorite comment about reading Bultmann comes from philosopher Dallas Willard:
ReplyDelete"Thus Rudolf Bultmann, long regarded as one of the great leaders of twentieth-century thought, had this to say: 'It is impossible to use electric light and wireless and to avail ourselves of modern medical and surgical discoveries, and at the same time believe in the New Testament world of spirits and miracles.'
To anyone who has worked through the relevant arguments, this statement is simply laughable. It only shows that great people are capable of great silliness." The Divine Conspiracy, p. 93
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ReplyDelete(4) More of a personal anecdote concerning Bultmann: I'm a little late to the game when it comes to studying Bultmann. This is in large part due to the fact that in my tradition he has been blatantly demonized, unfairly straw-manned, or at best passingly mentioned. I'm grateful for the professors and friends who have helped me correct the bias I inherited. It's pretty obvious to me now that a theologian / biblical scholar who comes to the table with little understanding of or interaction with Bultmann is terribly lacking, if even credible as such at all.
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ReplyDeleteI have interacted with Bultmann's NT scholarship here and there, but with sticks with me the most from the works of his that I've read is his incorporation of Heidegger's concept of thrownness into his hermeneutical thinking. This seems like a large step forward in the way of rehabilitating the legitimacy of one's own concerns and predispositions when reading a text, which was in turn was picked up by Gadamer and others.
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ReplyDeleteEnjoyed reading Scot McKnight's comments about Bultmann's resistance to the Nazi's while he was a professor in university. He was much better than his friend and mentor, Martin Heidegger.
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ReplyDeleteThe first time I heard about Bultmann was in Francis Schaeffer's "How Shall We Now Live." Bultmann was definitely a heretic, and probably even more contemptible than that other arch-heretic, Karl Barth.
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