Once granted that Existenz in our time is swallowed up in a radically
immanent mode of being, then the Christ who is an «answer» to our condition must be a wholly immanent Word that is fully detached from the Jesus of history.
In another closely related picture, Christ
is the Word
of God, God's address to man, the communication
of God's thought, the
mode of God's approach to his world, and, in accordance with the language
of contemporary philosophy, the embodiment
of that divine reason which permeates the cosmos, or the intermediary divine link between God and his creatures, the
mode in which the transcendent God becomes
immanent in the rational creation.