Title: Jesus and the Word /
Authors: Bultmann, Rudolf,
Date: 1934
Publisher: Scribner,
Physical description: x, 226 pages ; 19 cm
Language: English
LC classification: B
Contents: Translators' preface -- Introduction: view-point and method -- I. The historical background for the ministry of Jesus. The Jewish religion -- The messianic movements -- John the Baptist and Jesus -- II. The teaching of Jesus: the coming of the kingdom of God. The proclamation of deliverance and call to repentance -- The kingdom of God -- Universalism and individualism? Dualism and pessimism? -- Future and present. The necessity of decision -- III. The teaching of Jesus: the will of God. Jesus as rabbi -- The authority of scripture -- The Jewish ethic of obedience -- Jesus' insistence on obedience -- The intelligibility of the demand -- Asceticism and world reformation -- The commandment of love -- The will of God and the coming of his kingdom -- IV. The teaching of Jesus: God the remote and the near. The Jewish conception of God -- The God of the future -- Belief in the providence and justice of God -- Belief in miracles -- Belief in prayer -- Faith -- God the father -- God the remote and the near. Sin and forgiveness.
Subject headings (LCSH): Dialectical theology.; Jesus Christ--Teachings.