(BLOG SERIES INDEX) Agape: Bart Ehrman and David Goicoechea in Conversation
This blog series looks at Bart Ehrman and David Goicoechea on the central concept of Agape (love/self-sacrifice/altruism), typified by Jesus dying to save his enemies.
The Posts:
Bart Ehrman on the Absence of Atonement in Luke-Acts
Ehrman on Jesus’ Revolutionary Ethics
Bart Ehrman and did Jesus Found Modern Morality?
New Blog Series: A New Christian Theory of Ethics and Personhood with Ehrman and Goicoechea
My Presentation on the Historical Paul and Jesus on HISTORY VALLEY PODCAST with JACOB BERMAN
Bart Ehrman on Whether Jesus Invented Charity
(2) Some thoughts on my History Valley Podcast with Jacob Berman Presentation: Pilate
(3) Some thoughts on my History Valley Podcast with Jacob Berman Presentation: Who Killed Jesus?
Bart Ehrman and the Surprising Truth Behind Love Thy Neighbor
(2) New Blog Series: A New Christian Theory of Ethics and Personhood with Ehrman and Goicoechea
Bart Ehrman: Did Christians Invent Jesus’ Teachings?
Ehrman and Goicoechea on the Christian Ethical Innovation of Dying to Save One’s Enemy
Ehrman on the Historical Consequences of Jesus’ Radical Innovations in Ethics
Ehrman and Goicoechea on Love and Feeling
Ehrman on Atonement vs Forgiveness
Goicoechea and Ehrman on Jesus and the Kingdom
Goicoechea on Reconciliation and Ehrman’s Egoistic Jesus
Goicoechea (Paul) and Ehrman (Gospels) on the path to the Kingdom of God
As a secularism activist, I certainly am not promoting the supernaturalism/superstition inherent in this topic, but these ancient writers were the geniuses of their day and so we certainly can see a logic to their arguments and pearls of wisdom too!