says that “Jesus Christ confronts men in the kerygma and nowhere else.”127 About the new theological movement, Bultmann writes: “Theology whose subject is God can therefore have as its content only the ‘word of the cross’ (λόγος τοῦ σταυροῦ). But that word is a ‘stumbling block’ (σκάνδαλον) to men. Hence the charge against liberal theology is that it has sought to remove this stumbling block or to minimize it.”128 Bultmann believed the new theology to be important for NT interpretation. The significance