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Testament," in Faith and Understanding. p. 212. Cf. "Jesus
Christ confronts men in the kerygma and nowhere else." From
"The Historical Jesus and the Theology of Paul," in ibid.
p. 241.
1 ° .3 Bultmann, "The Historical Jesus and the Theology
of Paul," in ibid. p. 241,42. (Cf. "The apostolic
preaching which originated in the event of Easter Day is
itself a part of the eschatological event of redemption.
. . . [It] inaugurates the 'ministry of reconciliation'.
. . The word supplements the cross. . . . Through the word
of preaching the cross and resurrection are made present."
"New Testament and Mythology," in Bartsch, ed. Kervgma and
Myth, 1:42.)
1 "Bultmann, "The Concept of the Word of God in the
New Testament," Faith and Understanding. p. 308. (Cf.
"Jesus Christ is the Eschatological Event . . . as the Word
which resounds in the mouth of those who preach him." In
"The Christological Confession," from Essays, translated by
James C.G. Greig. (London: SCM, 1955), p. 286; "Jesus
Christ is the eschatological event . . . as repeatedly
present, as addressing you and me here and now in
preaching." Histor y and Eschatology. (Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, 1957), p. 151,52. "Belief in
the resurrection and the faith that Christ himself, yes God
himself, speaks in the proclaimed word (II Corinthians 5:20)
are identical." New Testament Theology. 1:305.)
"-See section VI from chapter three.
1 "In a Lloyd-Jones tradition: by man's sin and
God's holiness. In a Tillich model: by man's finiteness
and God's infinity.
1 "This view of preaching as incarnation certainly
predates Bultmann and Barth. Classic statements of this
principle are found in the Beecher Lectures of Phillips
Brooks and P.T. Forsyth. Brooks, Lectures on Preaching.
(London: Dickinson, 1881), p. 5-9 and Forsyth, Positive
Preaching and the Modern Mind. (London: Hodder and
Stoughton, 1907), p. 82,83. Brooks placed greater emphasis
on the importance of truth coming through the preacher.
Forsyth emphasized the divine participation in preaching.
Two more recent advocates of incarnational preaching are
Jean-Jacques von Allmen Preaching and Congregation.
Translated by B.L. Nicholas. (London: Lutterworth, 1962),
p. 12-15, 20-31) and Clyde E. Fant, Preaching for Today.
(New York: Harper and Row, 1975), especially chapter 3,
entitled "Toward Incarnational Preaching," p. 28-50).
1 ° 8Th1s is not to negate Paul Tillich's premise that
anything, even a woefully unworthy preacher, can be a bearer
of the holy. Yet, even Karl Rahner, who believed firmly in
the principle of ex opere operato wrote, "No one can deny at
this time that the Church is different from other social
bodies. In them it is a simple matter to keep the work of
an official quite separate from his private life and judge
the two, on the whole, by different standards. In the
Church office is such as to absorb the whole personal
existence of the man who holds it. This institution can,
but must not, be administered unspiritually; being part of