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(2) the organic or ministerial foundation of faith is the earliest stratum of Christian witness, explicit as well as implicit, properly called "the witness of the apostles," or lithe the apostolic witness"; and

(3) the dogmatic or doctrinal foundation of faith is the twofold constitutive assertion (or the two constitutive assertions) of the apostolic witness: the christological assertion that Jesus is the historical reality through which the meaning of transcendental, ultimate reality for us is decisively re-presented; and the theological assertion that God is the transcendental, strictly ultimate reality whose meaning for us Jesus decisively re-presents.

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