ABSTRACT
Christian theology properly begins by considering the confession that Jesus is the Christ. The event of Christian revelation takes place within Judaism, is to be interpreted within the sphere of its relations with YHWH, and involves a readjustment of its traditional understandings of 'Messiah'. Most Christians, however, make an act of faith on the basis of testimony that has become concrete in the context of a community and a tradition and not just on a possibility that comes into view. The Christian relies at heart on biblical testimony and supplements it as needed. The doctrine of God will finally involve metaphysics, even if the triune nature of God is regarded as a development of the phenomenon of the Christ. The Christian is concerned with understanding his or her home–in the habitus of belief, in Church, in parish life–and is therefore engaged with generative phenomenology, whether knowingly or unknowingly.
