I regard a Christology as
modern if it uses every relevant insight
of modern knowledge to differentiate the historical element in its interpretation
of the event Jesus Christ from the mythological, and remembers that the actual event comprises only history and the ontological reality
of God's presence and action within that history — whilst the mythology expresses that reality in ways which may indeed convey deep
truth, yet have in themselves the status not
of ontological reality but
of poetry.
Yes, it is essential to proclaim the meaning
of St. John and St. Paul through the Holy Spirit, against a larger canvas
of truth, as
modern knowledge has made it possible for us to do.