Sentences with word «kerygma»

We may perhaps take it that the speech before Cornelius represents the form of kerygma used by the primitive Church in its earliest approaches to a wider public.

We recognize as basic, that historiography can not and should not prove kerygma which proclaims Jesus as escbatological event calling for existential commitment.

It was by kerygma, says Paul, not by didache», that it pleased God to save men.

(iii) The Jerusalem kerygma does not assert that the exalted Christ intercedes for us.

To separate kerygma from myth is the positive function of demythologization.

The God of the Apocalypse can hardly be recognized as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, nor has the fierce Messiah, whose warriors ride in blood up to their horses» bridles, many traits that could recall Him of whom the primitive kerygma proclaimed that He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.

From the days of the primitive kerygma which lies behind the speeches in Acts, behind the oral tradition which was eventually crystallized in Mark and Q, the primary source of the theology of the cross is the words and deeds of Jesus of Nazareth.

The theological entailment of this is that the locus of revelation is not just the event of Jesus Christ or the word about him or, on the other hand, human experience, but is rather the intersection of the New Testament kerygma with the universal archetype of death and resurrection which underlies that fundamental human life rhythm of upset and recovery (Susanne Langer) and which generates comic narratives.

(ii) The Jerusalem kerygma does not assert that Christ died for our sins.

Moltmann sees the Resurrection kerygma not as referring to a completed foundation event in the past, not as symbolizing an existential state to which we can aspire in the present, but as set «entirely within the framework of the Jewish theology of the promise.

The revelation that transcendence resides in such a death as this, would be the eschatological saving event in history, just as the Easter kerygma claims to be.

And the Protestant Christian knows that the New Testament originated in the apostolic kerygma of the living apostolic Church and therefore is and remains her book.

The Protestant reading of Luther's story implies further that Luther has no significant relation to the preceding Christian tradition: Luther's breakthrough came about in an a historical, unmediated encounter with the naked Pauline kerygma.

The balance of the original kerygma is restored.

It is in the epistles of Paul, therefore, that full justice is done for the first time to the principle of» realized eschatology» which is vital to the whole kerygma.

This distinction is important because Rudolf Bultmann has brought the word kerygma to the front of theological discussion in dealing with revelation and there has been some confusion concerning what he means.

The Willingen Conference (1952) added «the notion of «witness», martyria, as the overarching concept,» saying «This witness is given by proclamation [kerygma], fellowship [koinonia], and service [diakonia].»

They supplement one another, and taken together they afford a comprehensive view of the content of the early kerygma.

The same kerygma underlies John 11:33 (D Text); 12:27; 13:21.

In the Jerusalem kerygma there is an equal sense of immediacy.

Accordingly, in the surest current way of getting on the track of Jesus» preaching, it is elevated to a methodological presupposition that everything which points toward the post-Easter kerygma can not be considered for Jesus» preaching.

I have been saying this to anyone who will listen and I have been proclaiming the odd kerygma «It's the Theology, Stupid» to anyone liberal or conservative who will give me the time of day.

Yet they are attached to certain words and phrases, such as «timeless kerygma,» that can only be explained as elitisms.

I will here only state my belief that it will be found that the primitive kerygma arises directly out of the teaching of Jesus about the Kingdom of God and all that hangs upon it; but that it does only partial justice to the range and depth of His teaching, and needs the Pauline and Johannine interpretations before it fully rises to the height of the great argument.

The primitive kerygma lived on.

Since the Jerusalem kerygma applies to Christ the Isaianic title of» Servant,» the way was at least open to interpret His death on the lines of Isaiah liii.

According to Acts, Paul did preach in terms closely similar to those of the Petrine kerygma of Acts x.

Is it not therefore inherently unsuitable as a vehicle for the Biblical kerygma?

He has raised doubts about the very kerygma itself.

The addition of «Christ» and similar titles in the MS tradition only shows how quickly the meaning of the primitive kerygma ceased to be understood.

This much at least is true: that kerygma alone possesses the intrinsic power of awakening the conviction of its truth in the hearts of men.

The neo-orthodoxy of the 1940s and «50s was bad enough when it tried to hold on to a revealed kerygma that no longer made contact with an increasingly secular world, but at least those theologians took seriously the larger questions of ontology and epistemology and sought for some meaningful overview.

In the very nature of the case, the liberal Jesus of history became the Christ of a liberal kerygma, and vice versa.

We have now to ask how far this form of kerygma is distinctively Pauline, and how far it provides valid evidence for the apostolic Preaching in general.