neighbor presents to us the riddle of our existence, our finitude, our sin, and our death. In the figure of the neighbor a decision must be made regarding whether God is a mere phantom of metaphysics, a figment of our imagination, or if he is the unknown God who has spoken to us in Jesus Christ. Can we hear the voice of the One in the other, can we see the wholly Other in the other? In loving the neighbor as myself, I realize that not only am I one with God, but I am also one with the neighbor. In
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