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No, I don't think it is, because each thinker, in his way, also allows for the main insistence or emphasis of the other. Thus Bultmann allows for Jesus' idea of God, as Jewish as it certainly is, being "radicalized" – -- so much so, in fact, that Jesus quite overcomes Jewish legalism. Marxsen, for his part, allows for Jesus' being concerned not only, or even primarily, to teach a new idea of God, however new his idea may, in fact, be, but, above all, to mediate the transformation of his hearers from worldly to eschatological existence.

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