... , Spirit-) must be questioned and replaced or augmented by better alternatives. Is Jesus Christ mainly to be remembered as the one who commanded his disciples to call God "Father-? One author after another, in more or less sophisticated ways, advances that because Jesus called God-Father-, Christians must qalways call God "Father-, at least when doing something important like baptizing or ... which, I think and believe, we are not at liberty to alter if we are to remain faithful in any way to its revelation. Not to do so means we have chosen another religion and altered the structure of ...

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... (the utterer's meaning), but to understand the meaning of the text itself (the utterance's meaning) (Wiklund, 2002, p114). When following the text beyond the situation and the intention s of the author, and beyond the reader's situation, the text discloses possible modes of being in the world that can be appropriated. Appropriation means to "make one's own- what was initially "alien- and ... all men were the sons of God and that they were born in the image of the Son and the Son was no different than themselves and the Son was chosen not by superiority of nature but by virtue of his sel...

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