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...probably affects a good share of the sermons spoken in U.S. churches any given Sunday, but laymen hardly know his name. He has far fewer disciples in the U.S. than either Niebuhr or Tillich; and even in Germany, young theologians find more impact in the Christian existentialism of Rudolf Bultmann (TIME, April 14, 1961). All this is fine with Barth himself, who dis owns the idea of a school - "except for my two sons" - meaning Markus, 46, a New Testament scholar at the University of Chicago, and Christoph, 44, who teach es Old Testament in Djakarta...
...turn of the century was the search for the "historical" Jesus, an attempt to discover his "personality" and his own sense of his mission. This quest seemed to be all but demolished in the years between World Wars I and II by such "form" critics* as German Theologian Rudolf Bultmann, who maintains that all that is known about Jesus was set down by the early church after the resurrection, when the first Christians saw him as the Messiah and composed the Gospels to prove it. Therefore, says Bultmann, one cannot know anything of the "Jesus of history...
...notion that much of the Bible is myth has long been held by some Protestant theologians, including the U.S.'s Paul Tillich and Germany's Rudolf Bultmann...
Celsus, Voltaire, Ingersoll, Paine et al. had the honesty to attack Christianity from outside the church. Tillich, Niebuhr, Bultmann and company promulgate their infidelity as "theologians" and "clergymen." Tillich's religious vaporings-a kind of 20th century Gnosticism-would rob Christianity of its Christ, its Bible, its God, its salvation and its sense. Tillich lights matches in the dark instead of opening the windows of his mind to let in the sun of righteousness. The miracle of the church is that it survives both open enemies like Voltaire and Trojan horses like Tillich...
Theologian J. Marcellus Kik recently wrote a parody on Tillich and Bultmann entitled "The King's Existential Garments"-with apologies to Hans Christian Andersen...