Rudolf Karl Bultmann (1884-1976)
Rudolf Karl Bultmann (1884-1976) was born on August 20th in
Wiefelstede, in (what was then known as) the grand duchy of Oldenburg.
His father, Arthur Bultmann, was an Evangelical-Lutheran pastor, his
paternal grandfather a missionary to Africa, and his maternal
grandfather a pastor of the pietistic tradition. Thus, young Rudolf
came from a family line heavily invested in the theological milieu of
his time. This family's gradual move toward Protestant
liberalism-especially on the part of his father-would prove to have a
significant impact on this young theologian-to-be.
Rudolf's education began at the humanistic Gymnasium at Oldenburg;
incidentally, he studied concurrently with the philosopher-to-be, Karl
Jaspers, who was only a few grades ahead of young Bultmann. Following
his graduation, he studied theology at the Universities of Tübingen,
Berlin, and Marburg, respectively. It is important to note that all
three of these institutions were heavily committed to liberal
theology. His greatest influence came from Marburg, including the
systematic and liberal theologian Wilhelm Hermann and New Testament
scholars Johannes Weiss and Wilhelm Heitmüller of the
history-of-religions school.
Bultmann received his doctorate in 1910 from Marburg and, two years
later, qualified as an instructor at his alma mater. In 1916, he
accepted an assistant professorship at Breslau, where he married and
had two daughters. Four years later he went to Giessen for his first
full professorship. Only one year later, however, he returned to
Marburg where he accepted his last full professorship, succeeding
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... of every mythological story from the New Testament. Rather, it is a
method of interpretation that recognizes mythology and rejects any
attempts to ascribe ultimate significance to it. As such,
demythologizing is only the negative step of a more comprehensive
method of interpretation that Bultmann had been propounding for many
years before he introduced the word "demythologize", the
existentialist interpretation of scripture. For example, returning to
the example of the Jesus' eschatology described above, Bultmann
demythologizes the eschatology of Jesus so that his existentialist
analysis can uncover its real meaning and significance. For Bultmann,
the 'No' of demythologization exists only for the positive work of the
existentialist interpretation, the rendering "clear the call of the
Word of God" (Bultmann 1991, 304).
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