The Christ who appears on the pages of the writings recognized as canonical Scripture, the Scriptural Christ, is always the crucified and risen one. By this I do not mean to undermine the historical specificity of the Passion (“once for all,” ἐφάπαξ, Rom 6:10; Heb 7:27), but to emphasize who it is that these texts describe. That they were all written after the Passion is obvious; that the proclamation, the kerygma, that the crucified and risen Jesus is Lord, so clear in
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