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                                                                                                           Which                                                                                                            Which Jesus?*

The following are "the most important areas of broad consensus" discovered by the interdisciplinary group of biblical scholars and theologians, the results of whose work are published as a collection of essays in the book:, Seeking the Identity of Jesus: A Pilgrimage (Eerdmans, 2008), edited by Beverly Roberts Gaventa and Richard B. Hays.

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Ad 9. Yes, but "something that must be learned through long-term discipline" is ambiguous as between something that must be learned through the long-term discipline proper to Christian theology as critical appropriation of Christian witness and something that can only be learned through the long-term discipline proper to the Christian life itself as--in Wittgentstein's words---"Resultat eines Lebens." The two kinds of learning and discipline are significantly different and not to be confused.

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