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...Unity announced that a limited number of religion experts would attend the council as its special guests, distinct from the appointed observer-delegates. First three named: Prior Roger Schutz and Pastor Max Thurian, both Calvinists from France's famed Protestant "monastery" at Tarze, and Lutheran Biblical Scholar Oscar Cullmann...
...Servant. Cullmann approaches the Gospels like a paleontologist reconstructing a human head from the fossil of a jawbone. As U.S. Scholar Maria
...this. Cullmann sees a glimpse of Jesus' conception of himself. Cullmann's reasoning: the writers of the Gospels use the title Son of man "only when they represent Jesus himself as speaking. They themselves never call him by this name and they never report another's doing so in conversation with Jesus." This would not make sense, Cullmann argues, if the Gospel writers were really the first to attribute the title to Jesus. "Actually, they have preserved the memory that only Jesus himself used it this...
Glory & Humiliation. Jesus' exclusive combination of the Son of Man and the Suffering Servant. Cullmann thinks, shows his own attitude toward his mission-not a later conception of the early church. He saw himself as appearing "(1) in glory at the end of time-a thought familiar to the expectation of the Son of man in certain Jewish circles; (2) in the humiliation of the incarnation among sinful men -a thought foreign to all earlier conceptions...
...other words, says Cullmann, the historical Jesus, as well as the theological Jesus, was conscious of being both the Servant and the Son, "in the complete and unique oneness with God which he experienced continually and in a manner beyond all human possibilities...