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But, be that as it may, he is almost certainly correct historically that "the early community understood Jesus' word – and word—and this means, not its timeless content of ideas, but his having spoken it and their having been addressed by it – as it—as the decisive act of God" (GV, 1:204 f.). In other words, whatever may or may not have been true of Jesus' kerygma, the Jesus-kerygma of the early church represents Jesus – in Jesus—in the "that" of his proclamation and ministry – as ministry—as the decisive re-presentation of God.

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