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The New Hermeneutic of such men as Ernst Fuchs and Gerhard Ebeling is similar to what Barth did in the early twenties. These men seek to be both more modern and more Reformational and this book is doing the same. What is needed is a really Reformational philosophy and theology. Only if we have this can the depth of the contrast between the self-attesting Christ of Scripture and the Christ-Event...

1. The New Problematics It is with the problematics of this new academic era, says Fuchs, that the New Hermeneutic concerns itself. Particularly we must grapple with the problems not fully solved by such men as Barth and Bultmann. The first and most basic of these problems pertains to the question of the historical Jesus. Bultmann has helped us to see that the question about the historical Jesus is not: which of his words are “authentic” and which acts of Jesus actually happened. Rather, what is
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