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| Creator: | Bultmann, Rudolf Karl, 1884-1976. |
| Title: | Rudolf Karl Bultmann Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1929-1965 |
| Quantity: | 4.0 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Papers of the German dialectical theologian. Correspondence, manuscripts (mostly in German), lectures, notebooks, and published material; correspondence includes three letters from Albert Schweitzer (1929-1931). |
| Language: | English, German |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Rudolf Karl Bultmann (1884-1976) was a German dialectical theologian. Born in Germany in what was then the grand duchy of Oldenburg, he studied theology at the Universities of Tübingen, Berlin, and Marburg; at the latter he was influenced by systematic and liberal theologian Wilhelm Hermann and New Testament scholars Johannes Weiss and Wilhelm Heitmüller. He received his PhD from Marburg in 1910 and shortly thereafter began teaching, first at Breslau and then at Marburg where he was made a full professor and taught for thirty years. His colleagues there included Rudolph Otto, Martin Heidegger, Karl Barth and Friedrich Gogarten. His History of the Synoptic Tradition (1921) is still highly regarded as an essential tool for gospel research. Bultmann was a proponent of "form-criticism," an approach which attempted to discover historical roots of religious writings. Bultmann held that "[t]he aim of form-criticism is to determine the original form of a piece of narrative, a dominical saying or a parable. In the process we learn to distinguish secondary additions and forms, and these in turn lead to important results for the history of the tradition."
[Adapted from "Rudolf Karl Bultmann" in Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Modern Western Theology]
The Karl Bultmann Papers consists of correspondence, writings, memorabilia, printed material and miscellanea. Correspondence covers more than 50 years; notable correspondents include Albert Schweitzer, Gerhard Burgmann, Schubert Ogden, and Thomas C. Odun. Writings contains interviews, class lecture notes, essays, and books. Memorabilia includes articles about Bultmann, class notebooks, and material from Syracuse University. Published material contains two articles in German. Miscellaneous consists of a poster and audiorecordings (cassettes) from a Bultmann symposium,
Correspondence is arranged chronologically; the exception is that of Albert Schweitzer, Gerhard Burgmann, Schubert Ogden, and Thomas C. Odun, which has been separated and arranged alphabetically at the beginning of the series. Writings are divided by types but are in no particular order. Memorabilia is alphabetical by type.
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Rudolf Karl Bultmann Papers
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Created by: --
Date: Oct 1966
Revision history: 3 Dec 2007 - converted to EAD (MRC)
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bergmann, Gerhard | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Odun, Thomas C. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Ogden, Schubert | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Schweitzer, Albert | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | General 1916-1921, 1923-1924, 1926-1932, 1936-1943, 1946-1964, 1968, undated | ||||||||||
| Interviews | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Den Spiegel -"Ist Jesus auferstanden wie Goethe?" 1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | TV - "Glauben und Verstehen" and "Theology and the Church in the 20th century " Jan 9, 1969 | ||||||||||
| Writings | |||||||||||
| Lectures | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Class lecture notes | ||||||||||
| Galather brief
Konuther briefe Philipen brief Urchristundunn |
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| Box 2 | "Concepts of life after death - from primitive religions to German idealism" | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "Der Christ liche Gotteslaube und der Moderne Mensch" 1963 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | "Die religiosen Stromungen inder hellenistischen Kultur" 1920's | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | "Religions movement in Hellenistic times" | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | "Griecheneum, Judentum, und Christentum" 1930-1940's | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | "Griecheneum, Judentum, und Christentum" (notes) 1930-1940's | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | "Griecheneum, Judentum, und Christentum" 1930-1940's | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | "Jesus Christ and the modern interpretation of the New Testament" 1951 | ||||||||||
| Books | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Kommentar zu den Johannesbriefen (Commentary to the letters of John) | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Kommentar zu den Johannesbriefen | ||||||||||
| Book reviews | |||||||||||
| Box 4 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Korner, Eschatologie und Geschichte | ||||||||||
| Miscellaneous | |||||||||||
| Box 4 | "Geschichte und Eschatologie" | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | "Geschichte und Tradition" | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Habilitation thesis 1912 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Corpus Hermenenticum | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | "Exegetica" (published) | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Faith, Love, Hope | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | "God and Salvation in Paul" (essay) | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Humanism and Christianity | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | "Marburger Predigten" 1956 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Minor motifs in Paul | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | "Pessimismus und Optimismus in Antiken Welt" (essay) | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | "Reflections on Christian education" | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | "Reflections on Wilhelm Kamlah's Christentum und Selbstbehauptung" | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Suffering in the New Testament | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | "Zum Problem der Entmy Thologisierung" | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | "Zur Frage nach den Quellen der Apostelgeschichte" 1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | "Das Verhauduis der Geschichte in Griechentum und Christentum" 1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | "Das Verhauduis der Christusbolschaft zum historichon" 1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Unidentified | ||||||||||
| Memorabilia | |||||||||||
| Box 5 | Articles about Bultmann | ||||||||||
| Class notebooks | |||||||||||
| Box 5 | 1903-1904 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | 1905-1906 (2 volumes) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | 1908 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Undated | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Syracuse University, spring semester 1959 - mss. and clippings | ||||||||||
| Printed material | |||||||||||
| Box 6 | "Staat- Kirche-Religion-Schule" 1919 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | "Das Urchristentum" 1986 reprint, c1949 | ||||||||||
| Miscellaneous | |||||||||||
| Box 7 | Bultmann symposium recordings 1986 (3 audiocassettes) | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Poster advertising "Rudolf Bultmann Symposium" 1/17/86 | ||||||||||
