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Criteria of authenticity has held a prominent place in scholarly research regarding the historical Jesus. Its roots go back to before the pioneering work of Albert Schweitzer and have become a unifying feature of the third quest for the historical Jesus. However, scholars from different methodological frameworks have expressed growing discontent with this approach to the historical Jesus. In this...

Put epigrammatically, I’ll say it like this: When the Jesus we have (re)constructed is no longer orthodox or the Jesus of the canonical Gospels or the Jesus of the regula fidei, the Jesus we have is no longer the Jesus of the church, and a Jesus who is not of the church is not a Christian Jesus. That Jesus was virginally conceived as a result of an act of God, lived as a Galilean Jew, preached the kingdom and did miracles and all that, died and was buried and was raised from the dead by God, and
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