This article argues that the quests for the historical Jesus have largely operated with an understanding of history hindered by a severely constricted range of divine and human possibilities. By outlining human ‘self-understanding’ as a historiographical question, it emphasises the determinative role in historical judgement played by the historian's assumptions about the range of possibility available to the processes of human thought. Highlighting three particular concerns that historians tend to connect to ‘docetism’, it suggests a couple of ways that metaphysical and theological forms of reasoning could expand the horizon of possibilities available to historical Jesus scholarship in a way that will augment access to the historical figure of Jesus.

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耶稣的自我理解：对耶稣历史研究的形而上学解读

本文认为，对历史耶稣的探索很大程度上是在对历史的理解下进行的，而对历史的理解是受神圣和人类可能性的严格限制的。通过概述人类的“自我理解”作为一个史学问题，它强调了历史学家关于人类思想过程可能的可能性的假设在历史判断中的决定性作用。着重指出了历史学家倾向于与“辩证法”联系的三个特殊问题，它提出了几种方法，即形而上学和神学形式的推理可以扩大历史耶稣学者可获得的可能性的视野，从而增加对耶稣基督历史人物的获取。耶稣。