Word: pannenberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...German Protestantism has been dominated intellectually by Demythologizer Rudolf Bultmann and the existentialist theologies of his Marburg disciples. In recent years, however, Bultmann's radical skepticism concerning the historic character of Christian revelation has come under concerted attack by a spirited group of younger theologians known as the "Pannenberg circle," after Wolfhart Pannenberg of Mainz University. It is Bultmann's conviction that the Gospels tell almost nothing authentic or trustworthy about the Jesus of history. Pannenberg's answer is that Christianity is nothing if it is not historically true...
...Nazi customs official from Stettin, Pannenberg, 38, did his doctoral studies in theology at the University of Heidelberg; he acknowledges a major intellectual debt to Heidelberg's Old Testament Scholar Gerhard von Rad. At the university, Pannenberg became the leader of a group of young thinkers who met for late-night discussions of theology, and who in 1961 formulated their principles in a joint volume of essays called Revelation as History. Although not widely known in the U.S., Pannenberg has lectured at the University of Chicago, Harvard and Claremont, and three of his major works are in the process...
Scriptural Authoritarianism. Pannenberg's dispute with Bultmann centers on revelation and its relationship to history. To Bultmann, faith and reason are totally separate, as are God's history and man's; the divine will is known only through the kerygma (proclamation) -God's word as contained in Scripture, which is understandable only through faith. Pannenberg argues that Bultmann preaches a kind of "Biblical authoritarianism" of God's word and, in effect, pushes Christian faith outside the boundaries of history. On the contrary, Pannenberg insists, God is not only the ground of all existence...