revelation of himself, where according to the testimony of the New Testament it is not God who reveals himself, but the Son who reveals the Father (Matt. 11:27) and the Father who reveals the Son (Gal. 1:16). Consequently Christian monotheism has to talk about ‘God’s giving of himself’, where the New Testament witness tells us that it is God who has ‘given up his own Son for us’ (Rom. 8:32) and the Son who ‘gave himself for me’ (Gal. 2:20). This means that Christian monotheism has to reduce the interpretation