creation of a new human community, without reference to inner ‘spiritual experiences’ or ‘religious states of mind’ or even ‘being born again’ as a new kind of individual. It is all about a God who in Christ takes our place, we in turn taking the places of others in a new kind of humanity. But having recast theology within the framework of human sociality, where does this process end? Can the question of Christ be confined to the community of the Church, or even to the Church’s relation to society,
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