The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden

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Within only a few pages, Marxsen says three different things about what he means by the phrase, "die Sache Jesu, It as used in his statement, "Die Sache Jesu geht weiter" (Die Sache Jesu geht weiter: 14, 12, 16). My question is how these things are to be understood so that all three are consistent and appropriate. It * "Die Sache Jesu" is (to be understood as) tleinbrechende Gottesherrschaft""Jesus' thingtl is (to be understood as) "(the) breaking in of God's rule."

  • "Die Sache Jesu" means "[Jesus] selbst in seinem Verkiindigen, Tun und Verhalten"-"Jesus' thing" means "Jesus himself in his proclaiming, doing, and conduct." means wherethrough the breaking in of God's rule took place. Jesus about "das Werk Jesu" in the sense of "die Sache, fur die er sich einsetzte," or "als das, was er eigentlich gewollt hat" (Jesus: 12). This, Bultmann says, "laBt sich ja nur reproduzieren als ein Zusammenhang von Satzen, von Gedanken, als L e h r e" (13). But, then, toward the end of the same book, he says tIes gibt eine Wiirdigung Jesu Person, die seiner Absicht entspricht, sofern er gesandt ist von Gott, sofern er T rag e r des Wo r t e s ist" (181; cf. Glauben und Verstehen 1: 204, where Bultmann says expressis verbis that Jesus "wollte der Trager des entscheidenden Wortes von Gott in der letzten Stun de sein"). In this case, however, any question about 2consistency is anticipated by Bultmann's saying expressly that Jesus "hat d u r c

13 May 2008h das Wort gewirkt " (itaEcs added), thereby making clear that Jesus' willing his teaching was simply the means wherethrough he realized his intention to be the bearer of God's word.

The three things are:

  1. "Die Sache Jesu " is "das, worum es ihm ging, worauf es ihm ankam"-"Jesus' thing" is "what he was about, what concerned him.

But if, according to 1 and 3, what Jesus was about, was concerned with, was himself in his proclaiming, doing, and conduct, then how could it be that, according to 1 and 2, what Jesus was about, was concerned with, was the breaking in of God's rule? Only, I take it, if Jesus himself in his proclaiming, doing, and conduct was the

Interestingly, a very similar question might seem to arise from what Bultmann has to say in Jesus about "das Werk Jesu" in the sense of "die Sache, fur die er sich einsetzte," or "als das, was er eigentlich gewollt hat" (Jesus: 12). This, Bultmann says, "laBt sich ja nur reproduzieren als ein Zusammenhang von Satzen, von Gedanken, als L e h r e" (13). But, then, toward the end of the same book, he says tIes gibt eine Wiirdigung Jesu Person, die seiner Absicht entspricht, sofern er gesandt ist von Gott, sofern er T rag e r des Wo r t e s ist" (181; cf. Glauben und Verstehen 1: 204, where Bultmann says expressis verbis that Jesus "wollte der Trager des entscheidenden Wortes von Gott in der letzten Stun de sein"). In this case, however, any question about consistency is anticipated by Bultmann's saying expressly that Jesus "hat d u r ch das Wort gewirkt " (itaEcs added), thereby making clear that Jesus' willing his teaching was simply the means wherethrough he realized his intention to be the bearer of God's word.

13 May 2008

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