Rudolf Bultmann, Existantialistic or New Testament Theology

Rudolf Bultmann is a prominent theologian and an expert at New Testament. He explained the only way for understanding Christian proclamation' referring to texts that this message reached us through them. The original cause of his fame is Demythologization of kerygma then it would be understandable to 20 century's human mind. He did his task by aid of Heidegger's existentialistic philosophy and persistently confirmed that his application of this philosophy would not reduce high value of kerygma in Christian proclamation. Although Heidegger provided concepts for existentialistic Theology of Bultmann' he was previously taught important points from Lutheran tradition and believed that faith is understandable only as an existentialistic phenomenon and should be relevant to ultimate truth named God. He justified his wide applying of philosophic system of Heidegger by showing great deal of similarity between the thought of writers of New Testament and principal concept of Martin Heidegger and asserts that diversity is on words applied in expressing their meaning. It is evident that in few cases cannot compare words of Gospel with their parallels in the philosophy of Heidegger. Bultmann is a complete existentialist not a Theologian defended beliefs of New Testament.