I'm impressed with how thoroughly unloved this blog post became. My worst yet.
http://peterkirby.com/mission-impossible.html
Pro-mythical stuff gets ~50 shares, pro-historicity stuff gets ~50 shares, this stuff gets... 2!
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- Sat Dec 14, 2013 6:11 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Why There Is Not And Never Will Be Consensus
- Replies: 32
- Views: 21162
- Sat Dec 14, 2013 5:27 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Why There Is Not And Never Will Be Consensus
- Replies: 32
- Views: 21162
Re: Why There Is Not And Never Will Be Consensus
They said the same thing about the four-minute mile. Fair enough, but even with an exceptional individual who is able to write what should become a consensus account of Christian origins on account of its proper treatment of the historical evidence, a sequence of historical events that are not at t...
- Sat Dec 14, 2013 5:13 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Megyn "Jesus was a white man ... He was a historical figure"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11174
Re: Megyn "Jesus was a white man ... He was a historical fig
It's kind of amazing how technology has made an ignorant newscaster's opinion relevant to millions of people, in a retrograde kind of way.
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:50 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Why There Is Not And Never Will Be Consensus
- Replies: 32
- Views: 21162
Re: Why There Is Not And Never Will Be Consensus
The main reason this position will never be popular is that people (either Christians, non-Christians, anti-Christians) are looking for more exciting solutions in relation with their belief, or lack of. Furthermore, this position will never satisfy Christians or anti-Christians. And non-Christians ...
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:47 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Why There Is Not And Never Will Be Consensus
- Replies: 32
- Views: 21162
Re: Why There Is Not And Never Will Be Consensus
Bultmann is the most famous example of the "bare historicity of Jesus." Thomas Thompson may be the contemporary example of "minimalist history." Their methods are largely the same. The major difference noted is that the former includes the historicity of Jesus and that the latter...
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:40 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The quest for the historical Christian communities
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15750
Re: The quest for the historical Christian communities
I think what he's saying is that non-historicist writers think about the documents but not about the communities behind them. If they thought about the communities behind them, they might realize why they are wrong about the historicity of Jesus. (Yes, not sure why, but that seems to be his point.) ...
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:06 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The quest for the historical Christian communities
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15750
Re: The quest for the historical Christian communities
It's posturing. First you'll need a Ph.D. to have an opinion, then you will need peer-reviewed publications, then you will need tenure, then you will need a headcount of like-minded peers, then you will need a session at the SBL for the subject, and then they'll slap you on the back and say you were...
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 8:52 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Why There Is Not And Never Will Be Consensus
- Replies: 32
- Views: 21162
Re: Why There Is Not And Never Will Be Consensus
Blogged this, with some changes of wording:
http://peterkirby.com/mission-impossible.html
http://peterkirby.com/mission-impossible.html
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 8:15 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Why There Is Not And Never Will Be Consensus
- Replies: 32
- Views: 21162
Why There Is Not And Never Will Be Consensus
We can easily distinguish between nine different and irreconcilable approaches to the study of Christian origins, characterized by the amount of intrinsic weight given to the two main sources of ideas that could guide and limit the multiplication of hypotheses: (1) Statements made by the Christian s...
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 7:18 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: New Book on Sethian Gnosis
- Replies: 14
- Views: 24759
Re: New Book on Sethian Gnosis
Perhaps we'll have to agree to disagree then. I don't see that there are any particular assumptions necessarily inherent to the mere use of the word "pagan" by modern historians. If I did, then I might agree with you.