Rudolf Bultmann Archives - Homiletic & Pastoral Review

Mythbuster Extraordinaire: How Benedict Tackled False Christologies

August 11, 2014 by Dr. Wanda Skowronska, PhD

Christians sense there is something radically wrong in trying to put Christ into strange molds, where long-held Christian beliefs about Christ are attacked from all sides. As Benedict stated in his Dunwoodie address to seminarians, to see … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Magazine Tagged With: Adolf von Harnack, Avery Cardinal Dulles, David Friedrich Strauss, Divino Afflante Spiritu, Ernest Renan, exegesis, Fr. John Meier, Hermann Samuel Reimarus, historical-critical method, Jesus of Nazareth (Benedict XVI), Martin Dibelius, Pontifical Biblical Commission, Providentissimus Deus, Romano Guardini, Rudolf Bultmann

Beauty and Biblical Interpretation: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Response to Modern Biblical Studies

May 24, 2014 by Luke Murray

Key to Balthasar’s response to modern biblical studies is his concept of beauty ... Balthasar links beauty to human perception, and the way human beings gain knowledge. Over the past 100 years—amidst the confusion and darkness sur … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: “Theological Aesthetics", beauty, Bible study, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, David Hume, David Schindler, Descartes, Francis Bacon, Gestalt, H.S. Reimarus, Hans Urs von Balthasar, hermeneutics, historical Jesus, historical-critical method, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Kant, Mary as model, Pope John Paul II, reality, Richard Simon, Rudolf Bultmann