Word: ritschl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...largely unchanged for 1,300 years. Then the empiricism of the 18th century Enlightenment began eroding belief in the supernatural. The New Testament was described as a hodgepodge that revealed much about St. Paul and the early church but little about the real Jesus. In the 19th century, Albrecht Ritschl, a leader of liberal theology, totally rejected the deity of Jesus, and Historian Bruno Bauer denied that the human Jesus had ever lived. In Rudolf Bultmann's 20th century view, the "Christ of faith" returned, but the "Jesus of history" was inaccessible. The pendulum is still swinging. Bultmann's disciples...
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