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This will be a theme of my book: modern theologies of the New Testament were failures from a Christian point of view precisely because what they ended up offering was bad history, bad theology, or both.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
The epitaph says, for those who can read it, that he is a saint and martyr who shall breathe again and shall in wondrous joy inherit and flourish, shall wear a crown and be seated in the kingdom. And I have heard it said that this must be so – if by killing men and shedding blood, by damning souls and causing deaths, by trusting evil counsels, by s
... See moreSean Martin • The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages
But the search for a Roman reality behind the charges very much misses the point of these texts: they are the product of an ideology that represented the struggle against tyranny in terms of a struggle against the Jews.
David Nirenberg • Anti-Judaism
... we may find it instructive to consider the attitude of Church Fathers toward variant readings in the text of the New Testament. On the one hand, as far as certain readings involve sensitive points of doctrine, t... See more
The Ending of Mark (Mark 16:9-20)
Five centuries before the birth of Christ, the Greek historian Herodotus, known as 'the father of history', discovered this when he travelled to Egypt. On the shores of a sacred lake in the Nile delta he witnessed an enormous festival, held every year, in which the Egyptians performed a dramatic spectacle before 'tens of thousands of men and women'
... See morePeter Gandy • The Jesus Mysteries: Was The Original Jesus A Pagan God?
Patrística - Demonstração da pregação apostólica - Vol. 33 (Portuguese Edition)
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