“If we attempt to argue for the historical truth of the resurrection on standard historical grounds, have we not allowed historical method, perhaps including its hidden Enlightenment roots, to become lord, to set the bounds of what we know, rather than allowing God himself, Jesus himself, and indeed the resurrection itself, to establish not only [...]
“It may not be instantly obvious, but if you allow for a moment that the Bible is not totally true and trustworthy, then suddenly nothing else in Christianity matters.” – The Issue of Issues, by Carl Wieland at Creation Ministries International. “Can’t the Bible be like the river that brings down nuggets of pure gold, [...]
What is “the theological significance of the quest for the historical Jesus.”? I found a great “Cliff Notes” for those of us reading The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels by Luke Timothy Johnson. It is The Jesus Quest & The Real Jesus (First Things [...]
“History”, Winston Churchill observed, “with its flickering lamp, stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passions of former days. What”, he inquired, “is the worth of all this?”
One of Johnson’s themes (The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels by Luke Timothy Johnson) is that the reality of Jesus and Christianity is beyond the reach of the historical method of the historian. “When a so-called historian uses the historical method to deny, in [...]