man’s full acknowledgment that he is a decision maker. The secular existentialists tend to think man can become authentic by forthrightly confronting his own death and insecurity and meaninglessness, but Bultmann, being a Christian, maintains that man finds salvation only if he receives it as a gift. Thus he argues that man is in need of a savior, and even goes so far as to say that authenticity can be achieved only through Jesus Christ. For Bultmann NT ideas such as the resurrection of the body,