The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden

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Bultmann argues that all the christological titles say "that God is to be encountered in [Jesus] and only in him" (Glauben und Verstehen, 2:256).

I can agree, provided his statement may be understood as meaning both of the following:
(1) that the gift and demand that Jesus makes explicit is the gift and demand originally presented by God, and that wherever God's gift and demand is originally presented -- which is, of course, wherever it can be understood -- it can never be other than the gift and demand that Jesus decisively re-presents; and
(2) that God is originally presented, and must therefore be re-presented, only as event, the "'that" as well as the "what" of re-presentation being essential to its being re-presentation in the sense intended.

4 September 2006

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