Pannenberg’s work should be seen in many regards as a direct response to the trend of eliminating the apocalyptic dimension of Jesus’s preaching from contemporary Christology and to the perceived hostility of historical Jesus research to traditional Christian faith. He insists that if scholars wish to take seriously the claim that Jesus is the revelation of God’s very self in history, then they must start from what can be learned about the historical person of Jesus of Nazareth—including the apocalyptic tone of his preaching of the kingdom of God. This apocalyptic tone relates to the
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