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 | | He taught an ideal preexistence of Christ as the ful filler of the divine plan of salvation in a world which, like mankind, had been created for this very end; and although the earthly Christ lacks the traits of divine omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence, he is recognized and honored as God by the faithful. |
 | | Ritschl's Christology forms the transition to his doctrine of God, who must be known not from meta physical speculations of natural religion or theology but solely in religious faith from the works and the person of Christ. |
 | | From this point of view Ritschl draws an antithesis between the ethical duties of the Church (prayer, profession of faith, and teaching) and her religious functions (preaching and the sacra, ments), the visible organization of the Church be ing but a means to these ends. |
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