tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post5215447229898490564..comments2023-11-02T01:20:32.436-07:00Comments on The Forbidden Gospels: Starting off the New Year: AnnouncementsApril DeConickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06616757055618151612noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-35211819331947867692010-06-20T13:53:41.547-07:002010-06-20T13:53:41.547-07:00Ed Jones said,
For a direct link to the Hoffmann ...Ed Jones said,<br /><br />For a direct link to the Hoffmann letter click on:The Importance of the Historical Jesus, the 11 Comments contain the reconstruction with related comments.Ed Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06381736191202524168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-51122083160018497612010-01-08T11:09:13.166-08:002010-01-08T11:09:13.166-08:00For more see Comments Dated April 12 - Apil 17 to ...For more see Comments Dated April 12 - Apil 17 to Blog: My decision about the Jesus Project.Ed Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06381736191202524168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-73515451393826186692010-01-07T09:15:38.339-08:002010-01-07T09:15:38.339-08:00My concern that we do not let go the Real Jesus of...My concern that we do not let go the Real Jesus of history compels this comment.<br /><br />From: Schubert Ogden: Mann's Quick Notes - Mark Mann, 1997. (My alternative for the term "Christian" and comments are set in parenthesis)<br /><br />1. Theology must be appropriate to Christian faith (the apostolic tradition) and credible to human experience. It is the full reflective understanding of the Christian (apostolic) witness of faith as decisive for human experience.<br />2. Historical Jesus not recoverable. (The apostolic winess, its oldest layer, understood the significance of Jesus in terms of his sayings, deeds said no more than "he walked the talk". Thus minimal historical bio detail).<br />3. NT is tradition. (NT writings, with the exception of the Letter of James, is not apostolic - not a reliable source for historical Jesus reconstruction), the norm for all theology is the apostolic witness.)<br />4. Final court of apeal is human experience: Christianity's (Earliest layer of apostolic tradition's) claim to universal faith must be supported by universally accessible evidence.<br /><br />God: He acts persuasively. (Humans know decisively of their God experience however quaint the form of their experience - be it Jesus' presence, Mary mother of God, The Holy Spirit, etc. - it is the experience of the power of the God revealed by Jesus).<br /><br />Jesus as Special Revelation: the point of Christology (ways of expressing the significance of Jesus) has not to do with the person of Jesus, but with the God whom Jesus reveals, the key of Christology is the existential significance of Jesus prclamation in the apostolic witness.<br /><br />Theory of Religion: there may be other true religions, but if there are, they will reveal the God that Jesus reveals: a God of universal love that is the origin of all that is or will be.<br /><br />(This is an attempt to say that the primary norm for a teaching goal for the study of gnosticism, esotericism, and mysticism must be the God that Jesus reveals as proclaimed in the apostlic witness. Judgments by any other norm must be seen as biased - not historical.)<br /><br />Ed JonesEd Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06381736191202524168noreply@blogger.com