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To what extent is "the memory, preserved at a few points in the New Testament (Mark 14: 36, Rom. 8: 15, Gal. 4: 6), that Jesus called God abba" properly said to be a "memory," as distinct from a christological formulation?

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And this seems all the more likely if their interest was not in Jesus' special relationship to God "as a matter of speculation but in what it meant for them," insofar as "they felt themelves themselves drawn into the relationship" and could also "address God as abba."

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