By Schubert Ogden
I've often had occasion to note the systematic distinction Bultmann makes between two different ways of living "according to the flesh" in the Pauline sense of the words: (1) living so as to give oneself imprudently and with desire to the alluring possibilities of what is visible and can be disposed of; and (2) living so as to lead one's life self-consciously and calculatingly on the basis of one's accomplishments, i.e., "the works of the law." In other contexts, where he's thinking and speaking about modern existence, he similarly distinguishes – e.g., in his discussion with Kamlah – between (1) living by disposing of what is disposable, instead of obediently submitting; and (2) living by misunderstanding even one's own possibility of obediently submitting as something one can dispose of; or – in his reply to Barth – between (1) securing oneself by objectifying thinking; and (2) securing oneself by one's own free decision.
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