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(5) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Beyond What is Behind by Chris Keith

Keith gives an interesting example of how even if we consider something to be true of Jesus, there is so much that we still don’t know. He writes: If I could indict atomistic approaches to the historical Jesus for one thing, it would be that their attempts to recover tradition out of the narrative frameworks (5) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Beyond What is Behind by Chris Keith

(4) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Biography by Helen K. Bond

Bond stresses the difficulty in trying to distill historical information about Jesus from the gospels. She writes: Thus the many chreiai in the Gospels are not primarily repositories of oral tradition, but fundamentally literary creations, crafted to take their place in a larger biographical work… There is most likely some historical fact at the core (4) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Biography by Helen K. Bond

(3) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Beyond The Jewish Jesus Debate by Adele Reinhartz

One of the interesting things about this essay is some of the anti-Jewish overtones in the gospels may stem from literary need born out of the attempt to present universal saving by Jesus. Reinhartz writes: (1) Although the Four Gospels vary with respect to some of the details, they all portray some level of animosity (3) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Beyond The Jewish Jesus Debate by Adele Reinhartz

(2) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Reception History by Halvor Moxnes

Blogging my way through the anthology, Moxnes has the first essay. One tidbit I’d like to highlight is how Jesus challenges societal norms. Moxnes writes: Jesus is calling young men to follow him and leave the patriarchal household and their father (Mark 1:16–20). The new household that Jesus establishes is one without a father (10:28–30); (2) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Reception History by Halvor Moxnes

Donald Trump full remarks at Inaugural National Faith Summit in Powder Springs, GA (Oct. 28, 2024)

If you’re intellectually impatient like me, just start watching at 47:00 when they start to stretch out their hands to cast a magic spell. That the faith community is backing Trump is wonderful. If Trump loses, it will be a powerful argument for the futility of prayer. There are reasons hospitals don’t have faith-healer departments. Donald Trump full remarks at Inaugural National Faith Summit in Powder Springs, GA (Oct. 28, 2024)

Philosophy and the Will

“In Leibniz’s sense, a ratio sufficiens, a sufficient reason, isn’t at all a ground capable of supporting a being so that it doesn’t straightaway fall into nothing. A sufficient reason is one that reaches and offers to beings that which puts them in the position of fulfilling their full essence, that is, perfectio. ” (Heidegger, Philosophy and the Will