If, moreover, the Christian claim were after all true—and it would be foolish to answer that question either way in advance when dealing with preliminary method—we might perhaps expect that in studying Jesus himself we would find the clue to understanding not only the object we can see through the telescope, the voice we can hear on the telephone, but the nature of sight and hearing themselves. Studying Jesus, in other words, might lead to a reappraisal of the theory of knowledge itself.
