By Schubert Ogden
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1. Christology, according to Bultmann, is the explication of a decision – specifically the decision called for by Jesus' claim that his hearers' destiny is decided by their response to him, and thus his implicit claim to be the decisive saving act of God. Otherwise put, christology is the explication of obedience to Jesus and his word, the obedience that lets one's situation be disclosed as new through him, that acknowledges him to have been sent by God, to be the revelation of God.
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