The Barmen Theses Then and Now: The 2004 Warfield Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary

by Eberhard Busch

Christians’ solidarity with Jews does not happen by evading Jesus Christ, but only in Jesus Christ. And, we have not yet rightly understood Jesus Christ as the one Word of God if we Christians have him in some other way than in his solidarity with the Jews, which is thus our solidarity. Thus we say that Christians are not God’s chosen people in place of the Jews, but rather that they, the Jews, are elect, and we are, thank God, called into them. This we believe (with Rom. 15:8) in that we believe the reconciliation of Jesus Christ as the confirmation of the promises that God has given to the mothers and the fathers of his people. In this way the Word, which was in the beginning, is that Word which according to 1 Peter 1:25 “endures forever.”