The Extent and Efficacy of the Life and Work of Jesus Christ

The extent and efficacy of the life and work of Jesus Christ is best viewed in the context of a balanced tension of a both/and dialectic between the objective-universal all of humanity at large and the subjective-particular wherein not all will choose to individually and personally respond to Jesus Christ. Over-emphasis on the subjective-particular that diminishes or denies the objective-universal leads to aberrant extremisms of particularism, either objective particularism or subjective particularism. Over-emphasis on the objective-universal that diminishes or denies the subjective-particular leads to extremisms of universalism, either general universalism or deterministic universalism.