“Alethurgic” Discourses on Jesus. The Gospel-Narrations as “True Discourses”

Starting from Michel Foucault’s theoretical assumptions, this paper’s aims at demonstrating 1. how the memory of Jesus from a “truth-telling historicized” discourse stands as a dynamism arising already from the gospel-discourse, with wholly kerygmatic and announcement concerns; 2. how the Quest on the “historical” Jesus (or the reconstruction of Jesus’s life according a truth-telling historicized discourse) isn’t modern at all, whereas it has been one of the many theological outlooks circulating among the first groups of believers; 3. that the traditional idea of development of the Quest of historical Jesus in various evolutionary phases is due to an ideological and theological tendency too, which should nowadays totally sidelined