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Even so, Calvin, in his way, clearly seems to be trying to express something analogous to the distinction I make between the empirical-historical Jesus and the existential-historical Jesus.

Wiki MarkupOther ways of working on the same distinction are Bultmann's, when he argues that "_\[d\]ie echte Form der Vergegenwärtigung_ des geschichtlichen Faktums Jesus ist ... nicht die historische Erinnerung und Rekonstruktion, sondern _die Verkündigung_" (_Glauben und Verstehen_, 1:146); and Knox's, when he discusses the church's memory of Jesus by distinguishing, however confusingly and confusedly, between "the facts of Jesus' career," or "facts about him or his life," on the one hand, and "Jesus himself," or "the man himself," on the other (_The Church and the Reality of Christ: 47,50,52_; cf. also Notebooks, 25 January 1997; and 19 July 2006).

13 April 2010