The Church Is Foundation In Christ Although the Church may have numerous "beginnings," it has but one foundation in Jesus Christ. It is the foundation in Christ that unites all the beginnings of the Church into what is a redemptive plan. In review of the different beginnings the redemptive process attached to Jesus Christ is unveiled. Defining redemption and shedding light upon the process of redemption opens, as Balthasar would assert, a window which brings us closer to the mystery of the Church. The Church begins with Christ's mother who consents to be his mother. She offers her womb to receive and bear the seed of the Word. Balthasar understands Mary's concent in tha