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In short, whereas Bultmann sees the novelty in Jesus' preaching in his call for repentance at the categorial, or moral, level of action, Marxsen sees it in Jesus' call for repentance at the transcendental, or existential, level of action. In both cases, however, the novelty is not a novelty in ideas, but in a new demand that idea become action -- in Marxsen's terms, that the Vorstellung of God's reign-rule become the Einstellung of a faith that bears good fruit.

11 February 200S2005