TEOLOGI MODERN RUDOLF BULTMANN; ESKATOLOGI DAN DEMITOLOGISASI

Abstract

Rudolf Karl Bultman was a New Testament scholar who began his studies at the University of Marburg in 1916-1921. Bultmann was influenced by Existentialist philosophy. His thinking was not merely superficial but posed a serious challenge to liberalism and orthodoxy. For several centuries Christology has been built using the "above" approach or Christology from above, one example is Cur Deus Homo? Written by Anselm. Modern theologians reverse this approach with the Christology from below pattern. This pattern changes the direction of Christology from theocentric to the anthropocentric. Christology becomes Jesusology. Bultmann, as a child of the modern era, clearly understands the problems of liberalism, so he stands up to challenge his era which has gone beyond the proper limits in treating biblical texts, especially the New Testament. He is more skeptical than Barth and Brunner in his criticism of the reconstruction of the historical Jesus according to the historical pattern of modernism. The evangelical wing tends to be “hostile” to Bultmanian thought because its demythologizing program attacks the validity of the Bible. However, the author sees the points of Bultmann's contribution as well as the weaknesses of his thinking