QUOTE : Yet even at this level of theological work, Jesus Christ is central. For he is not only the life and light of God in relation to men; he is also man subjected to evil and darkness and death He is not only the goal of the Christian life; he is also the way toward that goal, the movement from alienation to openness, from death to life. Men do not have to leave their lost condition and progress toward God before they can be in contact with Christ. In Christ, God reaches all the way to them in their lostness. Christ enters the realm of their evil so as to draw them to himself.