biography
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Bultmann, Rudolf (Karl)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1884–1976)
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| biography:
| Lutheran theologian, Hellenist, and New Testament scholar, born in Wiefelstede, NW Germany. He studied at Tübingen, taught at Marburg, Wrocław, (formerly Breslau, Prussia), and Giessen, then became professor of New Testament at Marburg (1921). An early exponent of form criticism (History of the Synoptic Tradition, 1921) he is best known for his highly influential programme (1941) to ‘demythologize’ the New Testament and interpret it existentially, employing the categories of the earlier work of Heidegger. |
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