people of Israel. The claim, of course, is that within this particular culture there was present, in the man Jesus, the eternal Word through whom and for whom all things exist. But those who make this claim do not occupy a position above other particular cultures or histories. I have found myself attacked at this point on the ground that this is a surrender to subjectivity. The safety of the church and of the Christian confession requires, it is said, that we affirm the “objective” truth of what