Historyczność i “ponadhistoryczność” krzyża i zmartwychwstania w refleksji ks. Jerzego Klingera: od Maksyma Wyznawcy do Rudolfa Bultmanna i z powrotem

Bogna Kosmulska

doi:10.25167/so.5733

Published: 2024-12-28

Vol. 24 (2024)

The Historicity and “Transhistoricity” of the Cross and Resurrection in the Reflections of Fr. Jerzy Klinger: from Maximus the Confessor to Rudolf Bultmann and Back Again

Bogna Kosmulska

Studia Oecumenica

Section: Teologia wschodnia: Jerzy Klinger - Geniusz Ortodoksji

https://doi.org/10.25167/so.5733

Abstract

The aim of the paper is, first of all, to recall the inspiring work Doktryna krzyża i zmartwychwstania według Rudolfa Bultmanna w konfrontacji z teologią Kościoła prawosławnego (The Doctrine of the Cross and Resurrection according to Rudolf Bultmann in Confrontation with the Theology of the Orthodox Church) by Fr. Jerzy Klinger and to analyze the way in which this outstanding Polish Orthodox theologian made one of his non-obvious revelations of the "essence of Orthodoxy". Bultmann, a famous German Lutheran theologian, under Klinger’s pen, turns out to intuitively understand something that was perhaps not emphasized enough in the Orthodox tradition, even though it was constantly present in it. This thing, according to father Jerzy, is the existential perspective of faith as primarily an individual experience, at least to some extent independent of the historically accepted image of the world (including its metaphysical description). Apart from this reconstruction, this paper supplements these considerations with inspirations from reading of Maximus the Confessor in the approach of Dumitru Stăniloae, a Romanian theologian, congenial to Klinger. The comparison of the two models of soteriology – existential (as in Bultmann) and cosmic (as in Maximus) – allows for a critical assessment of Bultmann's and, to some extent, also Klinger's position.

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Jerzy Klinger, Rudolf Bultmann, Maximus the Confessor, Dumitru Stăniloae, soteriology

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Kosmulska, B. (2024). The Historicity and “Transhistoricity” of the Cross and Resurrection in the Reflections of Fr. Jerzy Klinger: from Maximus the Confessor to Rudolf Bultmann and Back Again. Studia Oecumenica, 24, 33–45. https://doi.org/10.25167/so.5733

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