Theology as Hermeneutics: Rudolf Bultmann's Interpretation of the History of Jesus

by John Painter

Rudolf Bultmann was the most significant New Testament scholar we have known in the twentieth century. This study approaches his work arguing that his theology can only be understood correctly as an interpretation of the New Testament. Naturally it is a twentieth-century interpretation involving complex hermeneutical questions. But it is the New Testament which provides the subject matter to be interpreted. Bultmann's theology, stemming from the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474231667
• ISBN13: 9781474231664
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"