Ha!! And what's even funnier is I didn't know the word "supererogation" either!
I don't know, but this just doesn't register to me. I think that's kind of an anachronistic reading. Like you've…
Based on the available sources, do you think that Jesus knew he was likely to get executed and just accepted…
Hi Bart, I recently had a "deconstructing Evangelical" friend ask about Mark 7:24–30. I checked my copy of "The Five…
Augustine was obviously not a Greek, but I thought the quote was fairly well-known. Here it is: “Certain persons of…
There are, of course, some rather more outré approaches. Consider The Last Days of Christ the Vampire I will not…
Presuppose orthodox doctrine and it’s a gordian knot of a puzzle. OTOH suppose those early Christians were right. Then “the…
Great posts! I've read all your books for general audiences, but I'm surprised at how much I've forgotten when you…
Unfortunately saw this too late, otherwise I would have been interested. I live in upstate South Carolina but frequent Western…
What “leads” the Jesus Seminar to produce such a different picture of Jesus than both Evangelicals/fundamentalists and mainstream historical/critical scholars?…