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Wiki MarkupAccording to HRN, "the Church . . . must be described as the community which responds to God-in-Christ and Christ-in-God.... It is to God-in-Christ, to the universal, absolute and unconditioned in the particular that the early church renders account. . . . \ [But\] the Church looks not only to the absolute in the finite but to the redemptive principle in the absolute" ("The Responsibility of the Church for Society": 118 f.).  \\ 

I should, of course, wish to make a somewhat similar point. To speak of "God-in-Christ" is to identify Jesus formally, as the decisive re-presentation of the meaning of ultimate reality for us, where "ultimate" means, among other things, "last, all-determining, all-encompassing, ubiquitous." On the other hand, to speak of "Christ-in-God" is to identify God, or the meaning of ultimate reality for us, materially, by reference to the love disclosed through Jesus. 

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