theology altogether—starts to totter. Today Christology must face the fact that in recent centuries—to be more precise, since the Reformation—one pillar after another has given way. We will now briefly outline this process, which characterizes modern Christology. In doing so, we will also be able to show, however, that in the struggle with the foundations of Christology, the living figure of the Lord also emerges with new clarity. The first crack is the Reformation. It calls tradition into question