E. Hoskyns Origin of Gospel Traditions "The final task of the historian is to gather up the
evidence and to describe that event in such a manner that it is shown to lie
within the structure of human life and to be intelligible in that context.
Further, it must be described in such a manner that emergence of the
primitive church is also intelligible on the basis of the life and death of
Jesus of Nazareth. For any historical reconstruction which leaves an
unbridgeable gulf between the faith of the primitive church and the
historical Jesus must be both inadequate and uncritical: inadequate, because
it leaves the origin of the church unexplained; and uncritical, because a
critical sifting of the evidence of the New Testament points towards the
life and death of Jesus as the ground of primitive Christian faith, and
points in no other direction." Webmaster: rusty@bible-history.com
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