By Schubert Ogden
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Accordingly, I use and define "the historical Jesus" (more exactly, "the empirical-historical Jesus," as distinct from "the existential-historical Jesus") to mean "the actual Jesus of the past insofar as he is knowable to us today by way of empirical-historical inquiry using the writings of the New Testament as sources" (The Point of Christology: 44).
21 February 2000