Tuesday, February 28, 2006

The (a!) problem with Bultmann is that he seems to have no Pneumatology

I suppose Pneumatology falls fairly clearly into the mythological for Bultmann, disavowed by his controlling 'finite, self-subsistent' world-view. But the result of this is that Christ cannot be present today, and the past event of the Cross and Resurrection can have no relation to us except noetically as we are confronted with it in the preaching of the Kerygma.

Depressing. We can insist on the retention and use of the biblical narrative - but I could do with some help in relating this language, this meta-narrative, to Bultmann's. While I think Bultmann's world-view is reductionist it would still be good to formulate a 'grammar of divine action'. Very good ...

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