humanity developed in Rudolf Bultmann’s New Testament Theology, published 60 years ago.7 Bultmann’s work encompassed some six hundred pages, with almost one-third of the project devoted to humanity; this alone belies the importance of this topic in his rendering of NT theology. Another measure of the importance of anthropology for Bultmann is his location of such theological issues as God’s righteousness, grace, the death and resurrection of Christ, and the church as subcategories of a theology of
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