on some historical revelation. He grounded it particularly on the revelation of God given in Jesus Christ or, more specifically, on the work of Christ as the Founder of the Kingdom of God. While he did not regard Christ as the Son of God in a metaphysical sense, he nevertheless ascribed to Him a unique significance as One who, in virtue of His work in the establishment of the new ethical community, has for us the value of a God, and may therefore also be worshipped as such. This does not mean, however,