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How, according to Marxsen, was Jesus experienced, understood, and represented in the Jesus-pictures (= christologies) making up the synoptic tradition?

Wiki Markup"The basic structure of every \ [such\] christology," he answers, is that "a worker is proclaimed _\[ein Wirkender wird verkündigt\]" ("Christliche" und christliche Ethik im NT_: 48). Christology began, he argues, when certain persons experienced and understood Jesus' working to be qualified in a certain way and presented it accordingly. This can be called "implicit christology," because it is the _man_ Jesus of whom a qualified working is asserted. But it is nonetheless christology because this working \ -\- however differently qualified \ -\- is always and only asserted of Jesus. Explicit christology arose later, then, when the worker was qualified on the basis of his working.

Other things Marxsen says by way of answering the same question include:

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