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What significance is there to the fact that Jesus appeared as prophet and teacher -- considering that the existential question has both metaphysical and moral aspects and that faith necessarily has implications for both belief (credenda) and action (agenda)?

One could reasonably argue, it seems to me, that the apocalypticism in terms of which Jesus formulated his prophetic teaching, being precisely mythology, was the time-conditioned form in which he expressed the metaphysical aspect of the existential question and formulated the beliefs implied by the answer to this question set forth in his teaching. Similarly, it seems to me, one could reasonably hold that the rabbinic, or PharasaicPharisaic, tradition of moral teaching provided the time-conditioned terms -- and problematic! -- in which Jesus formulated the moral aspect of the existential question as well as specified the moral actions implied by the answer given to it in his moral teaching.

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