subject behind his mode of behavior: rather, the immanent Trinity is disclosed and given over to our participation in the passing-by of the economic Trinity. The reliable fidelity of God can come into force in the sphere of the ever-endangered and broken fidelity of man only in the form of judgment, of ever-new decision and division. The more God’s fidelity establishes its authority, the more inexorable does this division become: it requires the rejection of
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