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• n  preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church

• This will mean, Cox warns, a restructuring of its essential tasks: kerygma (proclaiming God's message), diakonia (service) and koinonia (creating a community).
• 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.
• But demythologizing, Robinson points out, threatened to end up with "the conclusion that the Jesus of the kerygma could well be only a myth.

• kerugma

Quotes

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• Garry Wills in Los Angeles Times
  This is the basic Announcement (Kerygma) that would be the test of orthodoxy,Wills writes. "It is the nucleus from which the Gospels were built up."