Implied Christological claims in the core sayings of Jesus: Am application of Ludwig Wittgenstein's phenomenology -- Jesus' proclamation and self-understanding: Exegeting the core sayings of radical criticism -- Jesus' self-understanding disclosed in response to his person: An exegesis of Jesus' claims to authority -- Jesus' explicit Christological claims: Employing the criteria of coherence and continuity -- Jesus, the original source of hight Christology in the Gospels: Toward a deep phenomenology -- On transposition and attentiveness: C.S. Lewis's approach to Jesus and the Gospels -- Jesus and the "logically odd": I.T. Ramsey's logical empirical approach to Jesus and the Gopsels -- Jesus and the tacit dimension: Michael Polanyi's postcritical hermeneutic -- Jesus as incarnate "Thou": Gabriel Marcel's analysis of incarnate being and creative fidelity -- Jesus as author of the evangelium: J.R.R. Tolkien and the spell of the great story -- Jesus as self-authenticating authority: Presuppositions and authorial intent in Cornelius Van Til's hermeneutic.