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Died. Rudolf Bultmann, 92, one of Europe's most influential Protestant theologians; in Marburg, Germany. The last survivor of a generation of giants 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...
None of the reactions to the liberals' search for a historical Jesus were more profound or far-reaching than that of a Lutheran theologian and Scripture scholar, Rudolf Bultmann, who at 90 is living in Marburg, West Germany, and still writing in scholarly journals. Bultmann did not object to the liberals' methods or their presuppositions. Like them, he felt that the New Testament's 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...
...Tillichs were the Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald of Germany's intellectual set, bouncing from Berlin to Marburg to Dresden on a wave of popularity amid the desperate decadence of the Weimar Republic. Both had been married before. Tillich's first wife was carrying another man's child when Paulus, a front-line chaplain, returned from the disasters of World War I. Hannah was still married to her first husband and was carrying his child when she packed up and left to be with Tillich...