By Schubert Ogden
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Some of Bultmann's arguments against faith's being a _Weltanschauung_ are misleading insofar as they fail to state explicitly what he expressly allows elsewhere \-\- e.g., when he says that "with respect to its content of ideas, \[the word of God\] is a possible world view" (_NTM_: 41). By this I understand him to mean that, although the word of God, or the proclamation, like the faith for which it calls, _is_ not a world view, it nonetheless necessarily _implies_ a world view that is correctly understood as such. |
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I can only suppose that "sublating" theology's necessary objectification is indicated because it can speak of faith only in terms of "general ideas," notwithstanding that its whole point in speaking – -- however indirectly – -- is not to talk about God and God's act in general, but to confront its hearer with the demand for decision in face of God and God's action here and now.
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