Word: kerygma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that included Karl Earth and Paul Tillich, Bultmann sought a radical way to make Christianity meaningful to modern man. His seminal notion, "demythologizing," rejected any quest for the historical Jesus; events like the Resurrection, he said, were "myths" believable only in a nonscientific age. They thus detracted from the "kerygma" the existential moral truths that Jesus, and Christianity, represent...
...supernatural world view was intolerable to modern man, but he believed that the liberals were on the wrong track in trying to reconstruct the teachings of a historical Jesus. Schooled in the thought of Martin Heidegger and Sören Kierkegaard, Bultmann was convinced that the Christian message, or kerygma (from the Greek "proclamation"), must be something more existentially powerful. One clue to the message, he thought, lay in the beliefs of the first Christian communities where the Gospel was preached, and their perception of Christ from their own situation in life...
Respect is due the other beautiful religions that exist in China. Those going must develop a new kerygma, one based on a thorough understanding of what mainland China is all about...