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Wiki MarkupCouldn't one argue that Bultmann's early sermon, "Concerning the Hidden \ [_sc_. Mysterious\] and the Revealed God," exhibits some of the very confusions against which he later polemicizes?

Although this sermon already stresses the difference between the knowledge proper to faith and religion, on the one hand, and that proper to a "reckoning" science, etc., on the other, it seems clear that Bultmann still takes "mystery" in its religious sense to include matters that are, in principle, capable of being cleared up by revelation, even though one level of clarity, once challenged by new "experience," may well have to be abandoned in order to attain another, and so on -- with the result that God's revelation is thought of as an infinite process instead of as occurring in the decisive moment as in Bultmann's later thought.

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