case they forgot what should have been more obvious than it evidently was and so lost the way almost from the beginning. First of all, they forgot the impact made by Jesus. The disciple-making, faith-creating impact of Jesus should be a fundamental given and an indispensable starting point for any quest for the Jesus from whom Christianity originated. It is this failure to appreciate and to evaluate properly the role of faith from the very first that is the focus of my first line of criticism of