By Schubert Ogden
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If Marxsen is right, what is distinctive of Jesus' own kerygma as well as both the Jesus-kerygma and the Christ-kerygma ofthe of the early church and the Christ-kerygma of Paul is representation of the gift and demand of unconditional love. By contrast, what is distinctive of both John the Baptist's pre-Christian message of repentance and the Christian (but not "Christian") message ofthe of the Gospel of Matthew is representation ofthe of the gift and demand of conditional love.
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