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The object of the present work is to determine what is central in the Christian proclamation. We are tempted to represent as the ‘kernel’ or ‘essence’ of this proclamation that which appeals to us personally, and to consider as external and dispensable ‘framework’ that which is strange to us. It is due to the richness of the Christian message that the question as to the central element from which...

Thus R. Bultmann has at least a more correct view when he consistently treats the redemptive process as a whole and demands that the same method of “stripping away mythology” be applied also to the section of the line that is accessible to historical study.2 He thereby recognizes the fact that in Primitive Christianity the line actually forms a complete whole; it must not be torn apart by stripping away the time framework only from the beginning and end while leaving the historical middle section
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