The unique character of Rudolf Bultmann's thought has been missed by many traditional studies that cast him in exegetical or hermeneutic frameworks. His methods of source criticism and his concept of 'demythologizing' have led some to reject his thought in toto, others to label him as a subjectivist. Tim Labron steps out of such traditional studies by reading Bultmann as a unique scholar and leading to the keys that unlock the distinct character of Bultmann's thought, namely, John 1,14 and the principle of justification by faith. Bultmann uses them in a parallel function - to burn the traditional subject-object hierarchies and self-made foundations to the ground. Labron shows the implications this had for theology, religious studies and philosophy.

Tim Labron is Professor and Department Chair in Philosophy and Religious Studies at Concordia University of Edmonton, Canada. He is author of Science and Religion in Wittgenstein's Fly Bottle (Bloomsbury, 2016), Bultmann Unlocked (Bloomsbury, 2011), Wittgenstein and Theology (Bloomsbury, 2009), and Wittgenstein's Religious Point of View (Bloomsbury, 2006).

PART I
INTRODUCTION


1.Short Biography and Reception of Bultmann


PART II
BULTMANN AND THE LOCK


2. Paradigm and Paradox: John 1:14

3. Flesh or Glory?

4. Historie or Geschichte


PART III
BULTMANN'S KEYS RENEWED


5. Demythologizing and Justification by Faith

6. From Cartesian to Anti-Cartesian Thought

7. A Post-Structural Context

8. Wittgensteinian Parallels


PART IV
BULTMANN UNLOCKED


9. Dissolving Locks and Philosophy

10. Implications for Theology and Religious Studies