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So far as the New Testament witnesses are concerned, Jesus is the Christ not because he actualized the possibility of faith andf and, unlike uSf us, actualized it perfectlYf perfectly, but because he re-presents the possibility of faith andf for uSf us re-presents it decisively.

Jesus is the Son of Godf God, or any of the other things that faith appropriately asserts him to bef be, not to the extent that he believed Godf God, but solely to the extent that decisively through himf him, as we encounter him through the Christian witnessf witness, we ourselves and others through us are or can be brought to faith in God.

But if these claims are to the pointf point, then what any christology properly serves to explicate is not a past event that occurred between Jesus and Godf God, but an ever-present event that occurs between believers and God through Jesus as he is attested by the Christian witness.

11 November 1996