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...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, and freely criticizes his disciples' work...
...Marburgers are unswayed by such arguments. They argue that the Jesus of their studies is considerably more coherent than the part-man, part-superman, part-God image served UD by most sermons. "Our effort," says Conzelmann, "is to make that image more precise." The disciples also charge that most of their critics misunderstand the purpose and methodology of the new quest. Far from destroying faith, it is meant to confirm it by establishing the facts about the earthly Jesus that even the most critical scientific historian would have to accept. More important, the quest seeks to prove that there...
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