No.31 Referenced from ~ Part1 - Chapter 4 - Consideration 2

The problem of "faith truth or falsity" and "faith can be established or not"

The historicism-based quest for the historical Jesus tried to resolve the first aporia that the historical facts of Jesus cannot be known, but it gave rise to the second aporia that faith depends on scholarship.

Existentialism theology attempted to escape this situation, but was so caught up in the third aporia that faith is not established by itself even if Jesus was obtained, that its focus slanted to the theory of faith. As a result, this theology also lost sight of the whole issue of historical fact and faith.

While historicist theology had the difficulty that faith could not be established, existentialist theology had the difficulty that historical fact and faith were separated.

Therefore, the category of the "faith truth or falsity problem" (issues of historical facts and faith considered from the perspective of whether what we believe is true or false) and the "faith can be established or not problem" (issues of historical fact and faith considered from the perspective of whether faith is possible or not) is a new theological category presented in this essay to replace the category of historicism-based theology and existentialism theology.