Notes
1 The most recent data is from 2014 via the Pew Research Forum, https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/religious-denomination/evangelical-lutheran-church-in-america-elca/racial-and-ethnic-composition/.
2 The Association of Religion Data Archives, http://maps.nazarene.org/ARDADemographics/culture.html?y=5081935.2474104455&x=-9691625.700773153&b=2&denom=.
3 Michael Simpson, “Chairman’s Comments,” The Eagle Eye 2, no. 2 (April 2019), https://www.portercountyrepublicans.com/uploads/3/9/7/1/39714346/the_eagle_eye_april_2019.pdf.
4 Audrey Smedley, Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a World View (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1993), 6. For this citation and for this entire section I am profoundly and gratefully indebted to Dr. Chalmer Elaine Thompson of IUPUI.
5 Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Boston: Beacon Press, 2018), 15.
6 DiAngelo, 17.
7 DiAngelo, 20.
8 Chalmer Thompson “Racism, What It Really Is, and How It Manifests in Indiana” (lecture, Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program, Crawfordsville, IN, August 27, 2019).
9 DiAngelo, 25 (see n. 5).
10 This understanding of culture is not that of Eunjoo Mary Kim in her Christian Worship in Multicultural Contexts: A Practical Theological Approach (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2017). Nor is it easily placed within the framework from which Kim borrows, that of Kathryn Tanner, Theories of Culture (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1997).
11 Rudolf Bultmann “The Understanding of Man in the New Testament and the Greek World,” in Essays Philosophical and Theological, trans. James C.G. Greig (London: SCM Press LTD, 1955), 78.
12 Bultmann, 78f.
13 Tim Labron, Bultmann Unlocked (New York: T & T Clark, 2011), 28: “Geschichte… is the interpretation of the observer regarding natural events in relation to one’s life.”
14 Rudolf Bultmann, “Echte und säkulisierte Verkündigung im 20. Jahrhundert,” in Glauben und Verstehen: Dritter Band (Tübingen: J C B Mohr, 1965), 126–128.
15 Bultmann, “Echte,” 123; see also James F. Kay, “Bultmann almost always characterizes kerygma as Anrede [direct address],” in Christus praesens: A Reconsideration of Rudolf Bultmann’s Christology (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1994), 46.
16 Rudolf Bultmann, “General Truths and Christian Proclamation,” in Journal for Theology and the Church, trans. Schubert M. Ogden (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), 4:155.
17 Bultmann, “General Truths,” 157.
18 Bultmann, “General Truths,” 161.
19 Bultmann, “General Truths,” 162.
20 Rudolf Bultmann. “Das christliche Gebot der Nächstenliebe,” in Glauben und Verstehen, Gasammelte Aufsätze: Erster Band (Tübingen: J C B Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1933), 244.
21 Rudolf Bultmann, This World and the Beyond: Marburg Sermons, trans. Harold Knight (London: Lutterworth Press, 1960), 122.
22 Bultmann, This World, 122f.
23 Bultmann, This World, 123.
24 Bultmann, This World, 124.
25 Bultmann, This World, 125ff.
26 Bultmann, This World, 127.
27 Bultmann, This World,
28 Bultmann, “General Truths,” 128.
29 Bultmann, This World, 132.
30 Bultmann, This World, 132f.
31 Rudolf Bultmann, Primitive Christianity In Its Contemporary Setting, trans. Reginal H. Fuller (Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1956), 22.
32 Bultmann, This World, 148 (see n. 21).
33 Herman G. Stuempfle Jr., Preaching Law and Gospel (Ramsey, NJ: Sigler Press, 1990), 23–25.
34 Bultmann, Primitive Christianity, 187 (see n. 31).
35 Konrad Hammann, Rudolf Bultmann: A Biography, trans. Philip Devenish (Salem, OR: Polebridge Press, 2013), 319.
36 Rudolf Bultmann, The Gospel of John: A Commentary, trans. G R. Beasley-Murray, R.W.N. Hoare, and J.K. Riches (Philadelphia, PA: Westminster, 1971), 473.
37 One example in my context: We listened to black leaders who wanted support in getting a black-owned business off the ground. This is not what my congregation would have picked had we decided the nature of the service.
38 William J. Barber II, “Forward Together, not one step back” (speech, Univ. of California, Berkeley, April 14, 2019), https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/04/14/berkeley-talks-transcript-rev-dr-william-j-barber-ii/.
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Timothy Leitzke
Timothy A. Leitzke , the pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church (ELCA) of Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Indiana, holds a PhD in homiletics from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.