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\[ "Christian faith is distinctive because it speaks of an event that gives it this right, because it hears a word that even demands of it the acknowledgement of God as an other. For Christianity, faith in God is not faith and trust in God in general, but faith in a specific word proclaimed to it. The event is Jesus Christ, in whom, as is said in the New Testament, God has spoken, whom the New Testament itself speaks of as 'the Word.' This means that, in what has occurred in and through Christ, God has decisively revealed Godself to us; and in this occurrence a proclamation is established and legitimated that encounters us as God's word, that does not teach us a new concept of God but, rather, gives us the right to believe in the God in whom we would fain believe" (GV, 2:10). \]