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Confusing and confused as it seems to me to be, Knox's whole discussion of the church's memory of Jesus (including such claims as that "the Church remembers both more and less than the Gospels contain" [50] and that "there has come down within the body of the Church -- in, around, and underneath the Gospel materials and reflected more directly in certain statements in the Epistles -- an authentic remembrance of Jesus" [53]) serves to make a valid and important point. In fact, one might say of it what he himself says of the efforts of others -- namely, that "a sound instinct has been at work among those who have insisted on the reality and importance of an extrascriptural source of knowledge of the Church's own intimate past" (53, n. 3).

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