text: 3. I think it was historian Eric Voeglin who referred to history as the present under God. Interesting.
  Jesus as teacher/leader/redeemer taught "Love", love beyond, but inclusive of, civility, compassion, justice - with and for one another.
  Jesus as redeemer elevated the capacity of love to some mystical inclusion within himself to include the capacity for our participation in the mutual loving relation  of the Parent/Creator and the "Word". 
  We are, in a very real sense, the "body of Christ" and He is ours. The "history" of Voeglin's "present under God" is potentially (and intentionally fulfilled) the Spirit, the mutual relationship of total knowing/knowledge of the parent in the "Word" and, to paraphrase Kronkite: "we are there". 
  The catechical teaching has to become Trinitarian, humanitarian, relational, evoke awe, reverence and inclusive love- real, poetic, pragmatic, impelling.
  Right or wrong - re above - a fundamental "update", transition to the age of "incarnation" is needed.