By Schubert Ogden
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This is not to deny, naturally, that there can be such a thing as an a priori christology, whose claim to validity can indeed be validated by transcendental argument. But whether the christological predicate explicated by such an a priori christology can be predicated truly of anyone or anything as particular and arbitrary as the historical subject, Jesus of Nazareth, is beyond the competence of common human experience and reason as such, and therefore of any valid transcendental argument, to determine.
13 December 2002~ 2002; rev. 8 December 2008