By Schubert Ogden
The earliest Christian witness, in both the pre-Easter form of the Jesus-kerygma and the post-Easter form of the Christ-kerygma, is to the apocalypticist assumptions made in formulating it as the NT writings are to the OT writings. In both cases, the first term formulates the assertion that it (they) present(s) as the answer to the question formulated by the second.
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