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Marxsen says, quite rightly, that the criterion for judging "Christian" talk of God "may not be simply posited, but has to be worked out and justified" ("Christliche" und Christliche Ethik im Neuen Testament: 29). But how, exactly, is this to be done?

That there is an empirical-historical aspect to doing it is clear enough. But there is also a transcendental, or a priori, aspect – -- analogously to the way in which there is and must be an a priori christology involved in every a posteriori christology.

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