Sentences with phrase «kerygma claims»

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The liberation that love engenders and the claim that it lays upon us are absolutely binding; they are kerygmatic address, which, as Bultmann interprets Paul, «accosts each individual, throwing the person himself into question by rendering his self - understanding problematic, and demanding a decision of hint» The kerygma can be defined as «absolute» in two respects.

The primitive Church includes the claim of the credibility of the witnesses as part of its kerygma, a point to which we shall return later when we come to the resurrection.

On the other hand, the majority of Jews refused to accept the Christian kerygma, and in time their persistent refusal became an embarrassment to the church and an apparent refutation of the Christian claim that Jesus was the Messiah.

The final point in Käsemann's essay is, in effect, an exploration of our actual (i.e. post-form-critical) knowledge of the historical Jesus, in order to show that we are able to say that the messianic claims of Jesus explicit in the kerygma are already implicit in the teaching of Jesus.

The responsibility of Christians today is to proclaim the kerygma in our situation, but `... we must nevertheless implement the kerygma's claim to be proclaiming a Lord who is at one with Jesus, and we must do this by critical participation in the discussion of the Jesus - tradition of our day».

If the believer in response to the kerygma stands in a relationship with God parallel to that in which a Galilean disciple stood in response to Jesus» proclamation of the Kingdom of God, which the synoptic gospels necessarily claim, then teaching addressed to that latter situation is applicable to the former.