naming the Person of Christ recedes or disappears. . . , then there is a shift in emphasis that consists in the fact that Christ is no longer addressed in the respectful terms reserved for royalty but that his solidarity with mankind is stressed instead.”1 The presence of the figure of Jesus itself is becoming diminished—also with regard to the non-Christian contemporaries who surround us; the figure is transformed from the “Lord” (a word that is avoided) into a man who is nothing more than the advocate of all men. The Jesus of the Gospels is quite different, demanding, bold. The Jesus who
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