2012-01-112012-01-111998Malan, G & Van Aarde, AG 1998. 'Rudolf Bultmann se benadering tot die dag van die Here in 2 Petrus', HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies, vol. 54, no. 3&4, pp. 652-6710259-9422 (print)http://hdl.handle.net/2263/17748Spine cut of Journal binding and pages scanned on flatbed EPSON Expression 10000 XL; 400dpi; text/lineart - black and white - stored to Tiff Derivation: Abbyy Fine Reader v.9 work with PNG-format (black and white); Photoshop CS3; Adobe Acrobat v.9 Web display format PDFIn order to grasp the meaning of the concept of the day of the Lord in 2 Peter for today 2 Peter is interpreted in terms of a specific historical phase of eschatological development in the early church. Once this is done, the search for the meaning of such a concept for modern people is done by means of demythologization and existential interpretation.20 pagesPDFAfrikaansFaculty of Theology, University of PretoriaExistential interpretationEschatological developmentEarly ChurchDemythologizationExistentialismEschatologyArticle