According to Le Donne, the usage of such criteria is a form of "positivist historiography."Thinkapologtics.com, Book Review: Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity, by Chris Keith and Anthony Le Donne According to Chris Keith, a historical Jesus is "ultimately unattainable, but can be hypothesized on the basis of the interpretations of the early Christians, and as part of a larger process of accounting for how and why early Christians came to view Jesus in the ways that they did." According to Keith, "these two models are methodologically and epistemologically incompatible," calling into question the methods and aim of the first model.Chris Keith (2016), The Narratives of the Gospels and the Historical Jesus: Current Debates, Prior Debates and the Goal of Historical Jesus Research , Journal for the Study of the New Testament.
