kerygma
Americannoun
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the preaching of the gospel of Christ, especially in the manner of the early church.
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the content or message of such preaching.
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Origin of kerygma
1885–90; < Greek kḗrygma proclamation, preaching, equivalent to kēryk-, stem of kērýssein to proclaim + -ma resultative noun suffix
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The saving act of God, answers Bultmann, which is what the New Testament really represents, and for which he uses the theologian's Greek word, kerygma.
From Time Magazine Archive
The problem is to free the kerygma from its encrustation of myth so that modern man can grasp it.
From Time Magazine Archive
And no theologian today worth his doctorate would dare talk of preaching or teaching: the fashionable forms are kerygma and didache.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1953, at the annual seminar of Bultmann's "Marburg Disciples," Dr. Ernst Kasemann argued that it was time for theology to relate the Jesus of history to the proclaimed Christ of the kerygma.
From Time Magazine Archive
That a free kerygma of Christ and some other matter were added to Hermas, Mand.
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
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