Sublime

Since the biblical plan of salvation centres on God’s revealing himself in real history, through prophets, priests, and finally by the incarnation of his eternal Son, Jesus Christ, the biblical apologetic is essentially one of asserting and demonstrating the factual nature of the events recounted. The Apostle is willing to make the entire truth of

Such Christological readings that see Jesus as the protagonist of all of his stories are not “wrong”; they are legitimate interpretations in light of church doctrine, and they are often profound.

Similarly, not even a hint is given of Chloe’s functioning as a leader in Corinth.

The Gospels are above all a theological interpretation of the events rather than an objective and disinterested description of the historical Jesus of Nazareth.

By replacing the supernatural events of the Bible with existential categorizations, he held that the German churches could preserve their belief in an existential Christ of faith, rather than a historical one as those in the British school affirmed.