By Schubert Ogden
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What is to be learned, then, from their different, even if not really contradictory, positions on this question? I should say that two things are to be learned: (1) that Jesus' idea of God is, in an important respect, new, in that it precludes any thought of meriting God's unconditioned love; and (2) that Jesus' overriding concern is not simply with teaching a new idea of God but with effecting the transition from one (inauthentic) mode of human existence, or selfunderstandingself-understanding, to another (authentic) mode.
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