By Schubert Ogden
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In interpreting Bultmann, I have argued that, even on his own use, "self-understanding," or "understanding of existence," includes indefinitely more than an
understanding merely of myself, in abstraction from others, the world, and God. Thus I say, for example, that, in his view, "the reality of our own existence precisely as selves or persons," which is "the reality always already disclosed to each of us nonsensuouslynon-sensuously, in our own unique self-understanding,"
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The most important thing, however, is that basic insight that the theological ideas of the New Testament are the unfolding of faith itself, growing out of the new understanding of God, world, and man – -- or, as it can also be formulated, out of the new self-understanding – -- given in faith. For what is meant by the new self-understanding of the believer is not understanding in the sense of a scientific anthropology that objectifies man to a phenomenon of the world, but rather an existential understanding of myself in unity with my understanding of God and the world. For I am myself not as an isolatable and objectifiable world phenomenon, but in my own unique existence that is inseparable from God and the world (587). |
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