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At the same time, so-called new questers, including the "renewed questers" currently pursuing the quest, have proved to be quite confused about just what kind of quest of Jesus is really necessary, religiously or theologically. Beginning with the correct theological judgment that Christian faith is obedient acceptance of the gift and demand decisively re-presented through Jesus, they commonly proceed to infer that what is religiously or theologically necessary is a quest of the historical Jesus. What is really thus necessary, however, is a historical quest of Jesus – -- the Jesus attested by the earliest Christian witness, if only implicitly, by its "that" as witness, to be of decisive significance for human existence.

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