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If this account is essentially right, it is clear that I was not as totally misguided as I have had come to think I was in earlier formulations in which I asserted or implied that Christian witness is constituted explicitly as such by only one assertion, i.e., the properly christological assertion. The truth in all such formulations is that there is, in fact, only one constitutive Christian confession, while the truth in the other quite different formulations to which I have been led more recently is that there is nevertheless not one but two constitutive Christian assertions: the properly theological assertion that the meaning for us of the strictly ultimate reality properly called "God" is the unconditional love decisively represented through Jesus; and the properly christological assertion that the historical person Jesus is of decisive significance for human existence because he decisively re-presents this strictly ultimate reality in its meaning for us.

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