By Schubert Ogden
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What is the "objective claim" that makes the valuation expressed by the constitutive christological assertion more than merely a "subjective preference"?
It is the claim that Jesus fulfills all the conditions necessary to anyone's \ [_sic_\!\] decisively answering the existential question and therefore being of decisive significance for human existence. Wiki Markup
But, then, it must be possible to stipulate these necessary conditions explicitly and a priori -- before the fact of Jesus, even as before the fact of anyone else of whom "the Christ" or any functionally equivalent and interchangeable christological predicate could be truly asserted.
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