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SOME INTRODUCTORY NOTES
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6
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I. THE MANY IMAGES OF CHRIST
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8
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Christ the Man‑and‑God (the Church's View)
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8
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Champion of Inner Freedom (according to Fedor
Dostoevsky)
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15
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An Ideal of Moral Perfection (according to Leo
Tolstoi)
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21
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Revolutionary and Rebel (according to A. Vvedensky, K.
Kautsky and others)
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31
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The Fascinating Hero‑Sufferer (according to Ernest
Renan)
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40
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Mentally Ill (according to J. Meslier, A.
Binet‑Sanglé and Ya. Mints) [pp. 50-57]
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50
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One of the Prophets of Judaism (according to Leo Baech,
Eduard Meyer, and Joel Carmichael)
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57
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Personified Heavenly Body (according to A . Niemoyewski,
A. Drews and others)
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64
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Which Image Is the True One?
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70
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II. DID HE REALLY EXIST?
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75
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Unfounded Conclusions Based on Allegedly Ideological
Considerations
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75
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Groundless Assertions Based on Religious and Theological
Considerations
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77
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Is it Possible That He Did Not Exist?
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80
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Conjectures: the Possible and the Impossible
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83
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The Life of Christ As Told in the Gospels
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89
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Information From Non‑Evangelical Sources
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102
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A Possible Variant—“Someone Came By . . .”
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124
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The Most Probable Version
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138
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III. CHRISTOLOGY IN MODERN THEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL
LITERATURE
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185
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“The Collapse of an Image”
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185
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Keeping One's Faith by All Means!
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191
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"Suprahistory" Instead of History
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200
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Right and Left Trends in Christology
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205
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Hans Küng on the Problem of Christ
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207
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What Should We Do About Jesus' Biography?
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212
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IV. IN LIEU OF CONCLUSION
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