Word: kerygma
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...favorites. It means presupposition. Wissenschaft is far better than saying simply discipline or science, and anxiety sounds much deeper if you say Angst. If you grow weary of German, there is always Greek-almost everyone has seen Never on Sunday-with such splendid specimens as kerygma (message of the Scriptures) and agape (divine love...
Trinitarian Mystery. Midway between total faith and total rejection lies the intellectual agony of Christendom: the task of interpreting God's message to man in doctrine. Perhaps the only constant in dogmatic history is development, change and discovery. The original kerygma (proclamation) of Christ's apostles, as transmitted to his followers in an oral tradition of Jesus' teachings, had a pristine simplicity. As Paul put it in II Corinthians, "God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself." But Paul himself, as much Greek as Jew, used a different and more powerful language to proclaim Christ than...
...Prime Mover. In other words, the world has been "defatalized," and has become the task and responsibility of man alone. Instead of deploring this trend, the church should welcome and assist it by supporting rapid social change. This will mean, Cox warns, a restructuring of its essential tasks: kerygma (proclaiming God's message), diakonia (service) and koinonia (creating a community). In technopolis, the message of the church is to proclaim those secular events and movements "where God's reconciliation is break ing in." Service means to "identify" with this reconciling action...
Instead of the emergence of Christianity, younger theologians nowadays speak knowingly of The Event. Sin, in the person-centered approach of existential theology, becomes estrangement. And no theologian today worth his doctorate would dare talk of preaching or teaching: the fashionable forms are kerygma and didache...
Inevitably, the reaction set in. In 1953, at the annual seminar of Bultmann's "Marburg Disciples," Dr. Ernst Kasemann argued that it was time for theology to relate the 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...