By Schubert Ogden
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It's imperative to realize that these two "whethers" coincide: the question whether I will surrender myoId my oId self-understanding and understand myself anew in the light of God's liberating judgment is one and the same with the question whether I will acknowledge Jesus' cross as the decisive fact of salvation (GV 1: 284). This, I take it, is Bultmann's real point in saying provocatively that theology is at the same time anthropology, even as christology is at the same time soteriology (TNT5: 192).
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