83. Rudolf Bultmann

One of the most brilliant and influential New Testament scholars of the 20th century, Rudolf Bultmann offered remarkable insight into the texts of the documents, although his theology departed markedly from the views commonly associated with traditional understanding.

[@30sandrita1]

Omg, you Americans don't speak any language other than English, any at all, any of you!!! No matter how educated some of you may be, it's the same story! I don't want to insult anyone so I'm going to disappear now, but that is the philosophy professor right there, for God's sake, and he didn't even know how to pronounce the word, he pronounced it wrong!!! One word that is crucial for philosophy!! And he's not an exception, he's a rule, he's an American and Americans don't speak languages!! He didn't know vorverstãndnis!!! It is pronounced forvenštendnis!!! There you go. Now you know.
A few years ago I was listening to some theologian, American woman, and it was the same story!!! She pronounced wrongly some Greek word during her lecture, and the word was from the New Testament and was really crucial for the subject that she was talking about and it was the only greek word she said that evening and she said it wrong!!! Omg!!!
Now, do you think you can be qualified as educated if you don't speak any language other than English???? How did you write your masters thesis and your doctoral thesis, if you didn't read a lot of books and articles in other languages before??? You read translations?? Is that so? Well, that is not the same! Forgive me please, but I'm talking this for your own good! I want you to be educated! Do you not feel ashamed knowing how much people in Europe learn languages?? Forgive me please and take this as a constructed message to improve yourselves, learn more, know more and be better! Thanks for forgiving me and taking my advice! Learn languages, please! Thanks! 🖐️

[@johnwadsworth5946]

Another fine lecture, professor! Thank you for reminding me how Bultmann pointed liberal theology into yet another dead end. I am struck by the futility flowing from the consequences of his views. If God and the Bible were nothing but mythology - i.e., not real and not true, respectively - then Christianity becomes an absurd exercise played out in a ritualistic swamp, and all of Dostoevsky's fears would become realized. Listening to the lecture, I started wondering, "If Bultmann was such a brilliant theologian, then how could he possibly reconcile his views with 1 Corinthians 15?" Okay, he didn't. He attacked Paul instead. It figures. It reminds me of what J. Gresham Machen said about liberal theologians and churches, namely, that what they do isn't Christianity.
Again, thank you so much. You are a credit to the teaching profession and a blessing to your students.

[@brucegore4373]

Thank you for your very generous feedback.

[@Primitarian]

All valid, except that it does afford an account of the many difficulties in the Bible with respect to fact, consistency, etc. that are bound to trouble a conscientious scholar. Then, too, recall that Jesus spoke in parables. Just because parables were stories does not mean they were of no value.

[@joyfahm5346]

why is there no text evident proof in the lesson? It's just spreading myths

[@rogercloud6003]

#1

[@majorharris8194]

Bultmann says the bible has no objective meaning.

[@martinkaspar5095]

i immitiatley stopped listening to this channel after reading the comment of virochana Asura @21:50 Bultmann does not "hate" the Bible. This is the type of slander sadly common among Evangelicals. He is trying to salvage the Bible for those who no longer think demons give you a fever.
i do not waste my time with channels like this one... bye

[@virochanaasura8521]

@21:50 Bultmann does not "hate" the Bible. This is the type of slander sadly common among Evangelicals. He is trying to salvage the Bible for those who no longer think demons give you a fever.

[@brucegore4373]

Fair enough. Thanks for the feedback.

[@Ebergerud]

Rudolf Bultmann was a four square mediocrity that could only have survived in a wacko time when the bar for scholarship was dreadfully low. (We're talking about a world where social Darwinism and eugenics were taught at every college in Europe and the US: not to mention the twin fountains of poison created by Stalin and Hitler.) Liberal theology is far from dead on campus, but it has long hit a dead end as any kind of guide to a living faith. (If nothing else, as Pope Benedict pointed out, the Biblical commentators employing "form analysis" have long reached a point where the bewildering array of conclusions they bring concerning the "historical Jesus" has discredited the entire enterprise.) Bultmann wanted a "useful" Jesus, one acceptable to the world of jet planes and radios. Naturally that meant nothing supernatural. (His influence was heavy in the Catholic world and he did immense damage via the "New Theology" of apostates like Kung and Chardin - as passed on to Vatican II. It was the Bultmann's of the world - and their champions at places like Yale Divinity - that dug the grave for main stream Protestant denominations. The Church of England has reached the grave and the others are following along. (The exceptions are those that rejected the Protestant liberal thinkers and the secular world gone sour that these people helped create.) One of the tragedies of our time is that European Catholics have found the moral midgets to lead Mother Church down the road paved by the Anglicans. Ironically all of this happens in an era when thanks to scholars like Richard Buridge, Richard Bauckham, Larry Hurtado and NT Wright (and others) who have given the New Testament more historical legitimacy than in any period since Pascal.

[@dantean]

A problem in calling Heidegger--Bultmann's great intellectual influence--an "atheist" is he was the son of a Church sexton, attended Jesuit seminary until health issues interfered, and eventually continued his studies at Freiburg--where he studied with financial support from the Church. Blithe use of the term "atheist" in describing either him or his work is, well, problematic, anyway. Great lecture, though. Thank you.

[@garyedwards3269]

Thanks for posting another great lecture; An introduction to Bultmann's ideas.

[@Ebergerud]

CS Lewis utterly trashes Bultmann in his famous essay "Fern Seed and Elephants." Text available online - audio version on UA-cam.

[@themarktauber]

I don't know why other professors can't present Bultmann as clearly and accessibly as you.

[@williamjayaraj2244]

Thank you for the wonderful lecture on Bultmann . A brilliant scholar but a non believer and yet taught the people how to interpret the NT in a new and unbiased way professor Gore.

[@Karl7100]

Why are so many of these philosophers German ... what is it with that country?

[@Primitarian]

Lutheranism for starters.