Who not what

Bonhoeffer’s point is that Christians do not remake the world with ideas distilled from Scripture or even Christ’s teachings. After all, Jesus did not come to teach a revised form of piety, but to form human creatures anew. The reason Bonhoeffer rejects a view of Christ as “essentially” a teacher is rooted in this central concern: if Christ is primarily a teacher then it is what he teaches rather than who he is that is of central importance.—Bonhoeffer the Assassin?, page 184

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But to listen to most Christian teaching, Jesus is primarily a teacher. The whole culture wars thing is predicated on Jesus being a teacher...
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