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121 -- In saying here that "what is meant by Jesus" in the earliest stratum of witness accessible to us -- "and the only thing that is meant by him -- is the one who makes or at any rate implies such a claim [sc. as is explicated by the church's christological assertion]," I naturally presupposed -- unfortunately without doing so explicitly! -- the distinction made earlier between what the earliest witnesses "assert about Jesus in speaking of him as the subject of their christological formulations" and what they "assume about Jesus in so speaking of him" (59; d. 61 f.). The only thing that is meant by Jesus in asserting or implying what the christological assertion makes explicit is that "Jesus means love, in the sense that through him the gift and demand of God's boundless love are made fully explicit as authorizing our own possibility of authentic faith and love" (122).

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2. Even so, it is not anything like the usual christology. Rather, as its title indicates, it asks about "the point of christology," on the assumption that either the meaning or the truth of christology, or both, are problematic, and that doubly – -- because of the usual revisionary christology no less than because of traditional, "orthodox" christology.

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4 -- "[T]he principal task to which this book is offered as a contribution" is "to further the effort in our situation today toward a christology of reflection that will be fully critical. . . ." Alternatively, is it is "to help develop a christology of reflection that, again in our situation, will be credible as well as appropriate . . . ." More simply still, it is "to make the point of the christology of witness as theology today is given and called to make this point."

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14 -- "The specific problem this book is an attempt to solve . . . is whether there can be such a thing as a revisionary christology that is not problematic in this same way [sc. as all or most other revisionary christologies, past and present]."

What do I seek to do in The Point of Christology?

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