the christian’s call

the call to discipleship to christ is “the call to join in working for the kingdom of god that is to come.”
“the point of reference of his expressions and renunciations, his activities and sufferings . . . is his call. it is to this, and not to himself, that he seeks to live. it is [...]

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the contradiction of hope

hope finds in christ not only a consolation in suffering, but also the protest of the divine promise against suffering. if paul calls death the ‘last enemy’ (I cor. 15.26), then the opposite is also true: that the risen christ, and with him the resurrection hope, must be declared to be the enemy of death [...]

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