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PDF Version of this DocumentIt is not simply false to say that the constitutive Christian confession, "Jesus is the Christ," entails the two dogmas of the triune nature of God and of the divine-human natures of the one person Jesus Christ. In truth, these two dogmas formulate necessary presuppositions and implications of the confession, not merely necessary consequences of this, that, or the other earlier formulation of it or of the assumptions made in so formulating it. But since the dogmas formulate these presuppositions and implications only by developing and seeking to harmonize a plurality of earlier formulations, they are entailed by the Christian confession -- not simply as such, but -- only as thus formulated.

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