Kerygma

Amongst biblical scholars, the term has come to mean the core of the early church's teaching about Jesus.

"Kerygmatic" is sometimes used to express the message of Jesus' whole ministry, as[1] "a proclamation addressed not to the theoretical reason, but to the hearer as a self"; as opposed to the didactic use of Scripture that seeks understanding in the light of what is taught.

They called the genre kerygma and described it as a later development of preaching that had taken a literary form.

Scholarship since then has found problems with Bultmann's theory, but in Biblical and theological discussions, the term kerygma has come to denote the irreducible essence of Christian apostolic proclamation.

[3][4] The New Testament is a collection of early Christian writings taken to be holy scripture.