bauckham vs enlightenment (rev)
(i have wondered if the more grammatically correct heading should be “bauckham vs the enlightenment” — but the more i think about it the more i realize that “bauckham vs enlightenment” is the more...
View ArticleRationalist Hitchens vs Eyewitness Bauckham
Any encounter with Christopher Hitchens’ talent with words is always a richly rewarding experience. And while reading his newly published “God is Not Great” I was at times painfully reminded of my...
View ArticleBauckham’s Jesus and the Eyewitnesses. Chapter 18c
Testimony and Its Reception (pp 490-493) Bauckham writes: To repeat, trusting testimony is indispensable to historiography. . . . . But for most purposes testimony is all we have. There are, indeed,...
View ArticleBauckham’s Jesus and the Eyewitnesses. Chapter 18d
By now it ought to be obvious I can only handle Bauckham in very small doses. Maybe it’s age. I used to love downing a whole bottle of whisky straight in very short shrift but have learned to cut it...
View ArticleBauckham’s Jesus and the Eyewitnesses. Chapter 18e
Holocaust Testimonies (pp. 493-499) Bauckham proceeds to wax lyrical over a paragraph of recorded oral testimony from Auschwitz survivor, Edith P. He concludes: “The most accomplished Holocaust novel...
View ArticleBauckham’s Jesus and the Eyewitnesses. Chapter 18f
Dehumanizing the Holocaust Bauckham attempts to set the Holocaust in an historical niche designed to make it appear as some sort of historical syzygy of New Testament miracle stories. The conclusion...
View ArticleBauckham’s Jesus and the Eyewitnesses. Chapter 18g
Completion of this series of section by section review and comment: Holocaust Testimony and Gospel Testimony (pp. 499-502) “The Holocaust discloses what we could not otherwise know about the nature of...
View ArticleBauckham: reply to JD Walters
JD Walters in his Cadre website has begun a lengthy series of responses to my responses to Bauckham’s Jesus and the Eyewitnesses. JD’s words are in black and indented. Mine are in blue. (I hope there...
View ArticleBauckham: reply 2 to JD Walters
A Defense of Richard Bauckham’s Philosophy of Testimony, Part 2 In this series of posts I am addressing the criticisms levelled by Neil Godfrey at Richard Bauckham’s philosophy of testimony, as...
View ArticleSome “training in history” for Craig A. Evans, Richard Bauckham, et al.
final editing about 2 hours after first posting . . . In my last post on Fabricating Jesus I discussed Craig Evans’ put-down of sceptical conclusions on the grounds that “no-one trained in history”...
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