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Traditionally, the legendary way of asserting Jesus' decisive significance is not independent of the Inythological mythological ways but has its place in the context of one or the other of them.

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Arguably, the two assertions constituting Christian witness explicitly as such have each involved a necessary presupposition -- these being, accordingly, the constitutive presuppositions of Christian witness. These are (1) the theological presupposition that God as conceived by radical monotheism is (formally) strictly ultilnate ultimate reality in its meaning for us, and, conversely, that strictly ultimate reality in its meaning for us is (materially) God as conceived by radical monotheism; and (2) the christological presupposition that the fully real human being Jesus is (formally) the decisive re-presentation of the meaning of God for us, God being as conceived by radical monotheism, and, conversely, that the decisive re-presentation of the meaning of God for us as so conceived (materially) the fully real human being Jesus.

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