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The object of the present work is to determine what is central in the Christian proclamation. We are tempted to represent as the ‘kernel’ or ‘essence’ of this proclamation that which appeals to us personally, and to consider as external and dispensable ‘framework’ that which is strange to us. It is due to the richness of the Christian message that the question as to the central element from which...

Christ, on the contrary, move forward from the year one into ever larger numbers. We shall see how this scheme of conceiving time and history corresponds to the Primitive Christian conception of time and history which is to be analyzed in this study. If our task were to present in graphic form the result of our investigation, this Christian system by which we reckon time could serve as pattern. We say “Christian system of reckoning time.” But it is the common system in the Western world. For the
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