b) Jesus. According to Bultmann, in Jesus (1926;translated into English as Jesus and the World, 1934),there is almost nothing to say about the historical Jesusinsomuch as the texts of the New Testament are moretestaments of the faith* of the early Christians thanhistorical documents. As a result, in terms of faith,what is important is not so much the content as the radicalevent to which it attests, essentially indicated bythe message brought by Jesus. Indeed, even thoughonly some historically questionable facts are known ofJesus’ life, the Nazarene’s message is not beyondreach. In essence, Jesus announced the approachingkingdom* of God—that is to say, God himself—andcalled for a decision. Jesus’ call to faith is thus like aninvitation to “take the omnipotence of God (divinepower) seriously, at precise moments in life. . . . It is theconviction that the faraway God is, in reality, thenearby God, under the condition that man decides tolet go of his normal attitude and that he is really readyto see the nearby God before him” (Jesus).