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The Mission of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann’s Dialectical Theology, written by David W. Congdon

The Mission of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann’s Dialectical Theology, written by David W. Congdon The Mission of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann’s Dialectical Theology. Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 2015. Pp. xxxiii + 953. $99.00.Among readers of this journal, it is perhaps those whose work is primarily in mission theology, even in contrast with that of theology of mission, who would be most interested in this book. The Mission of Demythologizing is by and large an intervention in the fields of historical theology, systematic theology, and dogmatic theology, albeit via a missiological thesis: that the dialectical theological method of Rudolf Bultmann is best understood as a missiological hermeneutic designed to translate the gospel of Jesus Christ from its early Christian context into the many social, cultural, and historical contexts of evangelistic proclamation precisely because such an approach (of demythologization) foregrounds how the documents that comprise the New Testament themselves reflect such reflective communication of the soteriological encounter of the living Christ eliciting if not demanding an existential and even eschatological (personally reconstituting and ultimately redefining) response from the earliest messianic believers.Systematicians and dogmaticians will be challenged to revisit not just Bultmann’s program of demythologization but also how it compares with Karl Barth’s theological achievements. There are important implications herein for Barth studies, particularly Congdon’s claims that not http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mission Studies Brill

The Mission of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann’s Dialectical Theology, written by David W. Congdon

Yong, Amos
Mission Studies , Volume 34 (1): 2 – Mar 1, 2017
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The Mission of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann’s Dialectical Theology. Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 2015. Pp. xxxiii + 953. $99.00.Among readers of this journal, it is perhaps those whose work is primarily in mission theology, even in contrast with that of theology of mission, who would be most interested in this book. The Mission of Demythologizing is by and large an intervention in the fields of historical theology, systematic theology, and dogmatic theology, albeit via a missiological thesis: that the dialectical theological method of Rudolf Bultmann is best understood as a missiological hermeneutic designed to translate the gospel of Jesus Christ from its early Christian context into the many social, cultural, and historical contexts of evangelistic proclamation precisely because such an approach (of demythologization) foregrounds how the documents that comprise the New Testament themselves reflect such reflective communication of the soteriological encounter of the living Christ eliciting if not demanding an existential and even eschatological (personally reconstituting and ultimately redefining) response from the earliest messianic believers.Systematicians and dogmaticians will be challenged to revisit not just Bultmann’s program of demythologization but also how it compares with Karl Barth’s theological achievements. There are important implications herein for Barth studies, particularly Congdon’s claims that not

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