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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.

one exemplar.”8 The “once-for-all” taught by the church must be generalized. And a distinction must be made, moreover, between the Christian principle and the person of Christ. The principle, the root-idea of the Christian religion, may not be identified with the person of Christ. The religious life of Christ is, indeed, the “first self-realization of the principle in a world-historical personage.”9 On this basis one can accept the relative value of the creeds. That the Sonship of Christ was
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