christology, and are developing christology out of the Jewish contours of the messianic promise.1 This allows us to comprehend the messianic mission of the earthly Jesus, which was neglected in the christological dogma of Nicaea, and which has been passed down to us pre-eminently in the synoptic gospels. Spirit christology is also Wisdom christology; for in the Israelite tradition Spirit and Wisdom were initially closely related, and in later Wisdom literature they can even be used as interchangeable
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