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Theology, in the strict sense of the Christian doctrine of God, presupposes that there is an ultimate reality, including a strictly ultimate reality, whose meaning for us is a vital question for human beings simply as such. So, too, christology, in the same strict sense of the Christian doctrine of Jesus Christ, presupposes that there was a historical person whom Christian witness asserts to be of decisive significance for answering that vital existential question. Thus, if it is called upon to justify its strictly theological presupposition, theology appeals, and must appeal, to the findings of philosophy, and specifically of metaphysics and ethics. Likewise, if it is called upon to justify its strictly christological presupposition, christology appeals, and must appeal, to the findings of empirical history.

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