By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
1. Bultmann says that "the paradox of theology" is that, "like all science, it can speak of faith only objectifyingly, in the knowledge that all its speech achieves its point only in sublating the objectification" (KM, 3: ).
2. He also says that, while "there is indeed a knowledge that is also given in revelation," "it is a knowledge that is real only in the act of faith and love. And if such knowledge can also be explicated theologically, still theological knowledge always has a 'dialectical' character, in the sense, namely, that as a knowledge that is preserved, it is always spurious, however
'right' it may be, and that it is only genuine when the act of faith is realized in it, when the resolve to exist in faith is carried through. For 'whatever does not proceed from faith is sin' (Rom 14: 23)" (GV, 3: 32).
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