By Schubert Ogden
...
Wiki Markup |
---|
Bultmann argues that all the christological titles say "that God is to be encountered in \[Jesus\] and only in him" (_Glauben und Verstehen_, 2:256). |
I can agree, provided his statement may be understood as meaning both of the following:
(1)
that the gift and demand that Jesus makes explicit is the gift and demand originally presented by God, and that wherever God's gift and demand is originally presented -– which is, of course, wherever it can be understood -– it can never be other than the gift and demand that Jesus decisively re-presents; and
(2)
that God is originally presented, and must therefore be re-presented, only as event, the "'that" as well as the "what" of re-presentation being essential to its being re-presentation in the sense intended.
4 September 2006