Word: bultmannian
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...belief in the imminent arrival of a Messiah-like figure and the need for spiritual renewal -- teachings that anticipate Christ's message. "After the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, you could no longer say there was no historical Jesus," says Theologian Otto Betz of Tubingen, once a redoubt of Bultmannian doubters...
...Born in Cincinnati and a graduate of S.M.U.'s Perkins School of Theology, Ogden is one of the nation's most persuasive interpreters of Rudolf Bultmann's "demythologized" Christianity (TIME, Sept. 24, 1956). Methodist Ogden was denounced as an "antichrist"' by Texas fundamentalists after his Bultmannian study, Christ Without Myth, was published last fall. Ogden insists that he is "a Christian only by being a modern man," and being modern to him means explaining religion in terms that are acceptable to contemporary scientific and technical thought. He believes that the purpose of such Christian dogmas...
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