Sublime

The contemporary person, especially in the context of Western civilization, sees freedom as his very reason for being. His goal for human existence is to achieve maximum autonomy. However, this person cannot fail to perceive that Christ is the embodiment of perfect freedom. A significant thing: the one who repeatedly submits to the will of the

Jesus himself was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, and the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.4

The exhortation of the apostle to make fast one’s own call is here interpreted as a duty to attain certainty of one’s own election and justification in the daily struggle of life. In the place of the humble sinners to whom Luther promises grace if they trust themselves to God in penitent faith are bred those self-confident saints46 whom we can

The experiment with God cannot take place without man.

as pure relation, pure unity. This fundamental statement about Christ becomes, as we have seen, at the same time the explanation of Christian existence.

Church is something more and something other than an external institutionalization and organization of ideas. He had understood that Christianity is not a system of