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In the doctrine of the person of Christ—more than anywhere else, says Professor Berkouwer—do we feel that theology is not practiced in a corner, and Christ can not be made the object of a neutral interest in a scientific analysis. There will always be implicitly audible the pre-commitment of faith or unfaith, even when the theological discussion does not change to preaching.

against all constructions which in one perilous way or another reasoned logicistically, on the basis of the divine work of redemption, to the insignificance of the humanity of Jesus Christ. In virtue of this submission to Scripture the church was preserved from making the true humanity of Christ suspect, as if this confession was approximately on a level with placing one’s trust in man rather than in God. The adoration of Jesus Christ, true God and true man, is certainly something other than a form
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