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What constitutes Christian confession is one question; what constitutes Christian witness, another.

Whereas Christian confession is constituted explicitly as such by a statement ofbeliefof belief, Christian witness is constituted explicitly as such by an assertion oftruth--of truthor, really, two such assertions: (1) the properly christological assertion that Jesus is the one through whom God acts decisively to judge and to save; and
(2) the properly theological assertion that God is the One who acts decisively to judge and to save through Jesus.

14 October 2001; rev. 21 September 2002