in 1892 entitled The So-called Historical Jesus and the Historic Biblical Christ.22 Kähler’s major contribution was his effort to distinguish between two different understandings of history. By Historie he designated that form of history that emerged in a reconstruction of the past using the critical criteria of “objective,” scientific analyses of ancient texts, established by the rational application of cumulative human experience. In contrast, Kähler used the term Geschichte to designate another
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