Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Know Nothing." During the 1920s, Bultmann sealed the doom of the old quest, as far as Europe was concerned.* He argued that the Gospels were interested not in presenting a dispassionate portrait of Jesus but in expressing the kerygma-the proclamation of the early church's faith in a Risen Christ. This meant that although the New Testament might be a primary source for a study of the early church, it was only a secondary one for a life of Jesus. Since the faith of later generations was really based upon the shining faith of the first Christians...
...become well entrenched in the universities of Central Europe in the last decade, and now, according to Theologian James Robinson, it is creating "quite a ground swell of interest" in U.S. seminaries. Robinson, of the Southern California School of Theology, calls this latest vogue "a new quest of the historical Jesus." Surprisingly enough, the quest has been undertaken not by Christian conservatives eager to save Jesus from scientific attack, but by the radical, skeptical disciples of a German Lutheran scholar whom many regard as an arch-heretic: Rudolf Bultmann, 78, retired professor of New Testament studies at the University...
These efforts to write miracle-free biographies of Jesus-summed up in 1906 by Albert Schweitzer in his classic The Quest of the Historical Jesus-ended in failure. For one thing, explains Bultmann Disciple Günther Bornkamm, "it became alarmingly and terrifyingly evident how inevitably each author brought the spirit of his own age into his presentation of the figure of Jesus." For another, such turn-of-the-century theologians as Johannes Weiss and Wilhelm Wrede proved conclusively that the Gospels were not simple historical accounts but highly sophisticated theological works in which the oral tradition preserved by Christ...
...common man. The opportunist who cares not a white either for ethics or selfconsistency might be termed a "soft" to get into trouble. The "hard" pragmatist seeks to avoid the eventual plight of his less scrupulous comrade by two tactics. First, he looks upon life as a constant quest for new and higher values. Secondly, he remains ever flexible, ever ready to adjust his ideas in order that the new values may be incorporated into a coherent world scheme...
...best examples of original scholarship in the book is contained in the discussion of the quest for national identity. Examining the idea of American unity, the authors make new use of Jonathan Edwards' long-neglected thought. They disclose how Edwards proposed in 1747 that all the colonies, from Maine to Georgia, join in a common day of prayer and fasting. Edward's sense of American unity goes far beyond a simple exploitation of geographic or economic entity. "His delineation of union as 'one of the most beautiful and happy things on earth' informed, for more than a century, a distinctive...