By Schubert Ogden
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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 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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