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# Jesus Christ and Mythology

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    The Book Was In Great Addition To My Bultmann Library
  

*by B***R on Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2019*

This book is a 1958 edition and it, along with the dust jacket, are in great condition. I am trying to amass as much of Rudolph Bultmann's writings as a can for a research thesis and this was an excellent addition to my library. The price was good and the delivery was right on time.

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    Very Good Introduction to Bultmann's Thought. Original in English
  

*by B***D on Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2010*

Rudolph Bultmann, Jesus Christ and Mythology (New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958) Rudolph Bultmann (1884--1976)  may be one of the two most important Protestant thinkers in the 20th century, carrying the Lutheran flag of modern scholarship alongside Karl Barth's conservative, Reform theology. This is remarkable in that there are so many excuses  by which one could ignore Bultmann. The most obvious is in the title of this small book, a collection of lectures Bultmann delivered in 1951, in English, at over a dozen American colleges and universities, including Yale, Vanderbilt, and the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Bultmann's whole scholarly enterprise has its foundation in the notion of mythology in the Judeo-Christian scriptures. But `myth' is one of those words that have strongly negative connotations, ranging from `fiction' to `devious falsehood'. The paradigm of a `myth' may be the ancient Greek stories about Achilles, Odysseus, Oedipus, Theseus, Jason, and Heracles, not to mention the gods such as Zeus, Hera, Poseidon,  Hades, Athena, Apollo, Ares, and Aphrodite, most of whom had `loose' morals to say the least. The fog of meaning surrounding `myth' may clear up when we realize that these stories had the same objective and effect on the Greeks as the stories of Abraham and Isaac, and Jacob, and Joseph had on the Hebrews, and the effect of Jesus parables had on his disciples. A bridge between `myth' and `lesson' may be to consider Aesop's Fables (620--560 BCE). In one sense, these are pure fantasy, with talking foxes and racing hares and what have you. But all the stories have morals, and sometimes the morals are not that obvious, just as some of the lessons from Jesus' parables are not always obvious, or even more likely, open to interpretation in several different ways. For Bultmann, `demythologizing' was his word for adducing the message, the kerygma, behind the stories in the Bible, which were told in the context of the ancient middle East and the Greco-Roman world. This is nothing more nor less than Hermeneutics, the noble study of the meaning of Biblical texts in terms which a modern audience can understand. The passage in Luke 12:41--48 is a perfect example. It assumes that slavery is legitimate, and bases its lesson on the role of slaves. We have no trouble factoring out the fact of slavery and concentrating on the underlying eschatological lesson Jesus is teaching.  Bultmann spells out how demythologizing involves interpreting the lessons for modern audiences without throwing the baby out with the bathwater. The fear Bultmann cites is that looking at the scripture so that it is consistent with, or, as our favorite TV forensic scientists like to say, `not inconsistent' with the modern world view, the Christian message will get lost. That is certainly easy to understand. Look at how aggressively creationists argue the story of Genesis against the evidence of modern Geology and Evolutionary Biology. What I suspect these folks don't realize is that they are shooting themselves in the foot. The OT creation stories are myths, pure and simple. And their moral has much less to do with which came first, the chicken or the egg, than it has to do with the nature of human evil. Bultmann is intent on our understanding the kerygma in modern language, seeing through the stories framed to be understood by people living 2000 to 2500 years ago. Just as Friedrich Schleiermacher said, hermeneutics is the art of avoiding misunderstanding. A second `naïve' objection to Bultmann is that his `point of view', clearly stated, in his exegesis, is the existential philosophy of Martin Heidegger. When I was studying philosophy in the Anglo-American curriculum dominated by Wittgenstein, Austin, and Russell, Existentialism wasn't even mentioned in classes, let alone discussed, except for brief segments in 20th Century Philosophy courses. Lots of attention was given to the Godfathers of Existentialism, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard. So why not go to the source. I got the impression that, like the `Post-moderns' of today, they were stretching a limited point of view too far. Of course, by now, Existentialism as an active doctrine has retired the field in favor of its stepchild, postmodernism. Another reason to relegate Bultmann's theories to history. A third reason is that as one reads material on subjects on which Bultmann had a big influence, such as the interpretation of the Synoptic Gospels, you find a lot of modern scholars finding things with which they disagree with Bultmann. This gives one the feeling that his scholarship is passé. But, while Bultmann's exegesis of details may be superseded, I suspect his theology and especially his methods of exegesis are still good today as a guide to approaching the scriptures with the right frame of mind. With regard to the first two concerns, this little book may not plumb the full depth of Bultmann's thought (he wrote a great deal), but it will certainly dispel apprehensions that Bultmann and those who followed his thought are intent on either `debunking' Christianity or applying an inappropriate gauge to interpreting the Scriptures. One of Bultmann's primary tenants is that one should not approach an understanding of the Scripture with the intent to find support for particular dogmas. The Scriptures need to speak with their own voice.

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    Great read as everything done by this outstanding German scholar
  

*by P***S on Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2018*

Bultmann's commentary on mythological connotations in the New Testament. Great read as everything done by this outstanding German scholar.

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