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Wiki MarkupAs much as I think that "Christ-kerygma" as well as "Jesus-kerygma" can be reasonably said to have its origin in the Christ-event, and thus to be formally and not merely substantially apostolic and canonical, I still think there are good reasons for saying such things as the following:

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T\]he canon of the church, and hence also the primary authority for

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theology, must now be located in what form critics generally speak of as

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the earliest layer of the synoptic tradition, or what Marxsen in particular

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refers to as 'the Jesus-kerygma,' as distinct both from 'the

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Christ-kerygma'

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and from 'the mixed form of the Jesus-kerygma and the

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Christ-kerygma'

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that we find expressed in the writings of the New Testament

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(OT: 64).

\[T\]he true apostolic and, therefore, canonical witness \[refers to \] the
 earliest layer of otwitnesswitness now accessible to us through historical-critical
 study of the \[s\]~opticynoptic \[g\]ospels, which, following one of the most
 careful students of this whole matter, Willi Marxsen, I call the Jesus-kerygma Jesuskerygma
(F&F: 45 £f.).
Here, if anywhere, in these earliest Jesus-traditions \[sc. these very oldest traditions that any quest of the historical Jesus must perforce reconstruct\],
 or, as Willi Marxsen prefers to say, in this earliest 'Jesus-kerygma,' we
 have what for us today must function as the real Christian canon or norm
 of appropriateness (PC: 113 f.).
17 September 2005