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On Faith in Scripture, etc.

What is really at stake in the claim that "the original church's consciousness of the faith, which is the constitutive beginning of the church as a whole. . has been objectified in an authentic and pure way in Holy Scripture" (Rahner, Foundations of Christian Faith: 377)?

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I should think that the same sort of reason would apply to the claim that the church is founded by Christ, i.e., that the essential constitution of the church conforms to Christ. If this claim is valid, surely, the reason is that what one means by Christ is that to which the essential constitution of the church is conformed – in the sense of John Knox's claim that, if Christians are those who remember Jesus, Jesus is the one whom Christians remember.

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