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Defining and delineating the Work of Christ has been the concern of the church since the first century. Unfortunately, many attempts to understand that work have resulted either in wholesale rejections of theology or in complex theological jargon which, saying nearly everything, says nothing. Professor G. C. Berkouwer avoids both these pitfalls in this volume, the ninth to appear in the American...

We only wish to point out that in our opinion the core of this controversy was the Lutheran inclination to elevate and overestimate the human nature in the unio personalis. That is what the Reformed justly contested, and when Barth, on the basis of his solution, wishes with the Lutherans to emphasize Christ’s real presence, then it may be pointed out that this is an element which the Reformed have always emphatically taught—so emphatically, indeed, that Gerhard derives an argument from it to defend
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