Bultmann

Tonight, several big-name violists will be conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, in a program that places Bach’s sixth “Brandenburg” Concerto alongside contemporary pieces by Nils Bultmann, Garth Knox and Andrew Norman.

Though he likes to refer to sophisticated theologians like Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr and Rudolph Bultmann, he works from a fundamentalist canon of the Scripture.

By 1926, Rudolf Bultmann of Germany’s University of Marburg, the foremost Protestant scholar in the field, threw up his hands: he called for a halt to inquiries regarding the Jesus of history.

“The data itself is valid and important, but the identification of any individual needs to be protected and, ideally, not retained,” said Jan Bultmann, a Privacy Coalition member.