A pupil of the radical Rudolf Bultmann, his experiences as a pastor reinforced his own left-of-centre theology.

In another article, "The Lordship of Jesus and Theological Pluralism," (6) Thomsen compares van Buren's position with that of Schubert Ogden in Christ without Myth: A Study Based on the Theology of Rudolf Bultmann, concluding that Ogdens Christology is preferable to the empirical thinking of van Buren.

The editor has rightly included entries on Emil Brunner, Rudolf Bultmann, John Calvin, Adolf von Hamack, Wilhelm Herrmann, Martin Luther, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and Eduard Thumeysen.

One finds a stronger Kierkegaardian influence on another great 'existentialist' theologian, Rudolf Bultmann. Heiko Schulz offers a thorough study of Bultmann's relation to Kierkegaard, and even offers a chart documenting all sixty-two of Bultmann's explicit references to Kierkegaard.

"Rudolf Bultmann: A Biography" by Konrad Hammann (Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology, Evangelical-theological Faculty, university of Munster, Germany) is a 624 page exhaustive biography of Bultmann's life and work.

It most particularly makes me much more open to the eschatological and apocalyptic parts of the Bible, which were an anathema to the likes of Albert Schweitzer and Rudolf Bultmann; they became fixated upon demystifying and demythologizing both scripture and God.

The great 20th-century Bible scholar Rudolf Bultmann put it this way: "After Jesus' death and resurrection, the preacher became the preached." In other words, during his earthly ministry Jesus went from town to town, synagogue to synagogue preaching the kingdom of God.

Gelardini shows how influential figures like Rudolf Bultmann and Ernst K/isemann divided Jesus from his Jewishness.

Modern theologians such as Rudolf Bultmann and ecclesiastical liberals such as the late Bishop James Pike have gone this route, thereby evacuating not just the Old Testament of meaning by reducing its content to myth, but also destroying the New Testament gospel by demythologizing Jesus' ministry and existentially dehistoricizing Jesus' words and work.

He went to visit the renowned New Testament scholar, Rudolf Bultmann, with whom he'd studied, and who had been on his thesis committee alongside Heidegger.