The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden

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Who is Jesus? Jesus is:
" · the decisive re-presentation of God, through whom God's own gift and demand become fully explicit, thereby authorizing our authentic understanding of ourselves" (76).
" the decisive re-presentation of God, in the sense of the one through whom the meaning of God for us is made fully explicit • ." (77).
II • not merely one authority among others, even the primary such authority; rather, he is the primal source of all authority ma~e fully explicit, and hence not an authority at all in the same literal sense of the
word • It (79) •
" • the primal source of all authority, on the same level as God, even if also distinct from God as this very source now become fully explicit"
(81) •
• the decisive re-presentation of God, in the sense of the one
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through whom the meaning of God for us, and hence the meaning of ultimate
reality for us, becomes fully explicit" (82; cf. 87).
• infinitely more than any norm, because he is the primal source
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of all norms made fully explicit • ." (102).
" · one who is infinitely more than a mere man, on the same level with God, even if also distinct from God as the decisive re-presentation of God's gift and demand" (112).
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• the gift and demand of God's love made fully explicit.
(120; cf. 123). II the decisive revelation of God's love" (120).
the event of God's liberating love" (124). the decisive re-presentation of ultimate reality, and hence the
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explicit primal source authorizing the authentic understanding of one's
existence in relation to this ultimate reality" (129).
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• the decisive re-presentation of ultimate reality and hence the
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explicit primal source of authentic self-understanding . ." (130). . the decisive re-presentation of the meaning of ultimate reality
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for us, and thus explicitly authorizes our authentic self-understanding as human beings" (149).
" the one through whom we are so re-presented with the gift and demand of ~d'S love as to be explicitly confronted with the possibility of faith--the faith that is at once trust in the gift of God's love and loyalty to its demand" (158).

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