By Schubert Ogden
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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.
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