[1] Jülicher, along with Johannes Weiss,[2] was instrumental in forging a consensus position on the new theory of "Messianic Secret" motif in the Gospel of Mark.
According to this theory, the author of Mark's gospel had invented the idea of the "Messianic Secret", whereby Jesus attempted to hide his identity, and only revealed it to a very few insiders.
[6] Jülicher also helped to change the understanding of the parables of Jesus among scholars, emphasizing that there was usually a single point of comparison between the story and what it represented.
[10] Later, scholars such as C. H. Dodd[11] and Joachim Jeremias[12] built on Jülicher's work, emphasizing each parable's significance in regard to the "Kingdom of God".
Although scholarship on Q is deeply divided and still without consensus, most researchers today believe Q to have been organized, either according to a series of catchwords or as a primitive liturgy,[10] and later editions acknowledge this fact.