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These efforts to write miracle-free biographies of Jesus-summed up in 1906 by Albert Schweitzer in his classic The Quest of the Historical Jesus-ended in failure. For one thing, explains Bultmann Disciple Günther Bornkamm, "it became alarmingly and terrifyingly evident how inevitably each author brought the spirit of his own age into his presentation of the figure of Jesus." For another, such turn-of-the-century theologians as Johannes Weiss and Wilhelm Wrede proved conclusively that the Gospels were not simple historical accounts but highly sophisticated theological works in which the oral tradition preserved by Christ...
...Bultmann's "Marburg Disciples," Dr. Ernst Kasemann argued that it was time for theology to relate the Jesus of history to the proclaimed Christ of the kerygma. The proposal quickly found supporters, largely among Bultmann's students and disciples, who hold many top professorships in Biblical studies: Bornkamm and Erich Dinkier at Heidelberg, Käsemann at Tübingen, Herbert Braun at Mainz, Hans Conzelmann at Göttingen, Gerhard Ebeling at Zürich, Ernst Fuchs at Marburg's Institute of Hermeneutics. Initially open to the idea of the quest, Bultmann himself soon became skeptical...
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