This document discusses the central subject of reconciliation in Christian theology. It states that reconciliation, the act of God making peace between himself and humanity through Jesus Christ, is at the heart of the Christian message and faith. It goes on to say that reconciliation is the central point from which one can understand Christianity - if the nature and meaning of reconciliation is misunderstood or diminished, it impacts the entire doctrine. The document emphasizes that the faith, love, and hope of Christians are grounded in and defined by the message they have received of God's reconciling work through Christ.
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This document discusses the central subject of reconciliation in Christian theology. It states that reconciliation, the act of God making peace between himself and humanity through Jesus Christ, is at the heart of the Christian message and faith. It goes on to say that reconciliation is the central point from which one can understand Christianity - if the nature and meaning of reconciliation is misunderstood or diminished, it impacts the entire doctrine. The document emphasizes that the faith, love, and hope of Christians are grounded in and defined by the message they have received of God's reconciling work through Christ.
This document discusses the central subject of reconciliation in Christian theology. It states that reconciliation, the act of God making peace between himself and humanity through Jesus Christ, is at the heart of the Christian message and faith. It goes on to say that reconciliation is the central point from which one can understand Christianity - if the nature and meaning of reconciliation is misunderstood or diminished, it impacts the entire doctrine. The document emphasizes that the faith, love, and hope of Christians are grounded in and defined by the message they have received of God's reconciling work through Christ.
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This document discusses the central subject of reconciliation in Christian theology. It states that reconciliation, the act of God making peace between himself and humanity through Jesus Christ, is at the heart of the Christian message and faith. It goes on to say that reconciliation is the central point from which one can understand Christianity - if the nature and meaning of reconciliation is misunderstood or diminished, it impacts the entire doctrine. The document emphasizes that the faith, love, and hope of Christians are grounded in and defined by the message they have received of God's reconciling work through Christ.
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THE DOCTRINE OF RECONCILIARON 57 THE WORK OF GOD THE RECONCILER
The subject-matter, origin and conten of the message received
and proclaimed by the Christian community is at its heart the free act of the faithfulness of God in which He takes the lost cause of man, who has denied Him as Creator and in so doing U ( C > o < ruined him-self as creature, and makes it His own in Jess Christ, carrying it through to its goal and in that way maintaining and manifesting His own glory in the world. i. GOD WITH US We enter that sphere of Christian knowledge in which we have to do with the heart of the message received by and laid upon the Christian community and therefore with the heart of the Church's dogmatics: that is to say, with the heart of its subject-matter, origin and conten. It has a circumference, the doctrine of creation and the doctrine of the last things, the redemption and consummation. But the covenant fulfilled in the atonement is its centre. From this point we can and must see a circumference. But we can see it only from this point. A mistaken or deficient perception here would mean error or deficiency everywhere : the weakening or obscuring of the message, the con-fession and dogmatics as such. From this point either everything is clear and true and helpful, or it is not so anywhere. This involves a high responsibility in the task which now confronts us. It would be possible and quite correct to describe the covenant fulfilled in the work of reconciliation as the heart of the subject-matter of Christian faith, of the origin of Christian love, of the conten of Christian hope. But the faith and love and hope of the Christian community and the Christians assembled in it live by the message received by and laid upon them, not the reverse. And even if we tried to put them in the forefront, we should have to lay the emphasis upon their ubject-matter, origin and content, which are not immanent to them, and which do not exhaust themselves in them. For Christian faith is ,'. with in, Christian love is love through, and Christian hope is hope in 3
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