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     If we would see revelation as revelation of truths (plural, like in chap.~4), this is no problem. But we're now talking about revelation of the Truth (singular, with capital). We thus need to distinguish between three different kinds of revelation:
 
     \begin{itemize}
-        \item Once and for all with Christ and His apostles: \emph{foundational} revelation. %todo
-        \item Continuing, calling people to faith in a living encounter with God. %todo
-        \item As in the life to come. %todo
+        \item Once and for all with Christ and His apostles: \emph{foundational} revelation.
+        \item Continuing, calling people to faith in a living encounter with God. Some call this \emph{participatory} revelation. Then we need a distinction between the participatory revelation to the apostles, which we may again call \emph{foundational}, and the participatory revelation to others, which is in a sense \emph{dependent} (on the apostolic witness).
+        \item As in the life to come. 
     \end{itemize}
 
-    %todo
+    The foundational role of the apostles had four functions:
+
+    \begin{itemize}
+        \item The testimony of the apostles gathered the first Christians (those who had not seen and yet believed).
+        \item The baptism and the Eucharist initiated the liturgical life of the Church.
+        \item The apostles made the decision to not impose the Mosaic law on Gentile converts.
+        \item The preserving of a divinely inspired record of the unsurpassable revelation in Christ and its reception in the first decades of church life. 
+    \end{itemize}
+
+    Clearly, the only way people nowadays can experience revelation is \emph{dependent} revelation. We could say that the period of apostolic revelation continued till the death of the last eyewitnesses, and that at this point the period of dependent revelation began.
 
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