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Bultmann's formulations require to be improved on wherever they privilege not only the Christ-kerygma in general, but even the christology of cross and resurrection in particular, as the New Testament kerygma. This they do, for example, when Bultmann says, simply, that the NT's talking about Jesus' resurrection is "an expression of the significance of the cross" (NTM: 36). The truth of which this statement is, at best, a misleading formulation – -- judging even by Bultmann's own account of the emergence of christology – -- is that the NT's talking about resurrection is an expression of the decisive significance of Jesus. Singling out Jesus' cross (or, alternatively, his birth or his baptism) is itself already but a way of expressing the decisive significance of Jesus himself.

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