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As regards issues of the third type, the important question is not (as Funk represents it) whether Jesus is to be assigned "a formative role in the Christian movement," but rather what such formative role Jesus is to be assigned – -- the role that Funk assigns him of being merely one Christian authority among others, even if the primary such authority, or rather the role that I, following Bultmann, assign him of being the explicit primal ontic source of authority for everything specifically Christian?

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