Godhead.”13 Jesus is not autonomous or self–existent. God is the acting Subject in Jesus. We should begin not with an abstract concept of deity (as in many christologies from above) nor with the historical Jesus (a christology from below) but with the living God incarnate in Jesus the man. I see Jesus not simply as a historical figure accessible to historical and scientific research but as the Word made flesh, the paradox of Eternity entering time at a particular point and place in history. This
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