Botschaft in Bildern (eBook)

Entmythologisierung als theologische Wahrheitssuche

Gerd Theißen (Autor)

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2021
164 Seiten
Kohlhammer Verlag
978-3-17-040973-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Inspired by R. Bultmann=s program of demythologization, this text inquires into the truth of mythical images in the Bible. It examines the various ways in which the Bible talks about God: narratively, dialogically, and doxologically, as well as ethically, mystically, and metaphysically. The Bible interprets Christological imagery as a kerygmatic message that leads to confrontation with God, as poetic imagination that seeks existential fulfilment, as a world of social symbols that creates sacred communal spaces. The ?demythologization= of this symbolic world starts with faith in the Holy Spirit: the cross reveals our distance from God, and the mystery of Easter renews God=s nearness to us as a resonance in human beings through the Spirit. After 80 years, Bultmann=s programme of demythologization is in this way renewed and continued kerygmatically and poetically, existentially and socially, cosmically and mystically. The concern remains the same: to decipher the message of the Bible through its mythical images.

Autor

Emeritus Prof. Gerd Theissen was Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Heidelberg.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.4.2021
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Dorothea Erbele-Küster, Volker Küster, Michael Roth
• Verlagsort: Stuttgart
• Sprache: deutsch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• Schlagworte: Exegese • Hermeneutik • Mythos • Neues Testament
• ISBN-10: 3-17-040973-5 / 3170409735
• ISBN-13: 978-3-17-040973-6 / 9783170409736