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All Blog Posts With Tag: Ernst Käsemann
How did Paul reconcile his Jewish heritage with the Gentile churches he planted around the Mediterranean sea? Ernst Käsemann (the beloved disciple of Rudolf Bultmann) wrote an outstanding essay titled Cry For Liberty in the Church's Worship, where he argues from Romans 8:26-27 that Paul dialectically embraced his Jewish-Christian heritage […]
Eye-Witness and Myth
Eye-witness accounts appear throughout the New Testament, but in the latest (and most dubious) New Testament scriptures distinguish themselves as eye-witnesses reports (ἐπόπται) in antithesis to aberrant myths (μύθοις) (c.f. 1 Tim 1:4, 4:7, 2 Tim 4:4, Tit 1:14, 2 Pet 1:16). In Wolfhart Pannenberg's essay "Myth in Biblical […]
Why is 2 Peter included in the biblical canon? It's a question I ask myself often, as are all theologians who study it. Not only is the authorship dubious but it's theological content as well. Ernst Käsemann said that 2 Peter "is perhaps the most dubious writing in the canon" and […]
Ernst Käsemann on why the gospels are ahistorical and unauthentic (August 3, 2018)
Ernst Käsemann argues that all four gospels are almost entirely ahistorical and unauthentic! It's a shocking conclusion, supported with a sound argument. It's shocking because are are obsessed with historical events, as if history may only be known through verifiable brute facts. The New Testament was not formed in the same […]
Ernst Käsemann argues that the New Testament scriptures have been subject to biblical criticism from their very beginning, and even the New Testament writers criticize each other, disagree with each other and contradict each other. In Käsemann's essay "Is the Gospel Objective?" in his Essays on New Testament Themes, he argues […]