ABSTRACT
The appeal to history is specially Christian, but it is also to be found in other religions. History is concerned only with the finite; it can work only with human categories; and its explanations must be psychological rather than theological. This may be expressed in Barth's aphorism whose says history, says non-revelation. There are thus three questions to be raisd about what may be called a religious history: a question of fact; a question of evaluation; and a question of theological interpretation. The central doctrine of Christianity is that Jesus of Nazareth is also the Christ, and that Jesus Christ is both Man and God. Traditional theology insists on the full humanity of Jesus; and at the present time even orthodox theologians declare without ambiguity that not only His knowledge and His healing power, but also His moral and religious life, were as human as our own.
