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"The basic structure of every [such] christology," he answers, is that "a worker is proclaimed [ein Wirkender wird verkündigt]" ("Christliche" und christliche Ethik im NT: 48). Christology began, he argues, when certain persons experienced and understood Jesus' working to be qualified in a certain way and presented it accordingly. This can be called "implicit christology," because it is the man Jesus of whom a qualified working is asserted. But it is nonetheless christology because this working -- however differently qualified -- is working—however differently qualified—is always and only asserted of Jesus. Explicit christology arose later, then, when the worker was qualified on the basis of his working.

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Jesus was understood as one who, in the midst of the old age, again and again lived the rule of God -- thereby God—thereby provoking the opposition of the old age (128 f.)

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Jesus was experienced as one who even now already lived again and again the life after the resurrection of the dead (132).

4 January 2005