God-consciousness as both the basis and the object of theological reflection. Into the second must go many of Barth’s Ritschlian teachers who eschewed the notion of religion being rooted in any general human capacity whatsoever, and insisted instead upon the positive and particular revelation of God in the historical person of Jesus; yet in doing so they tended mostly to identify the content of that revelation directly with historically locatable phenomena (the teaching, or the moral and spiritual
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