Richard Bauckham @ Wheation

Last night I went to Dr. Bauckham’s lecture on campus about the selection of the canonical gospels.  Bauckham has recently written an excellent book on this topic called Jesus and the Eyewitnesses.  The lecture was fascinating.  Here are some of my notes on it.  Part of them comes from Bauckham’s handout.
The existence of other gospels leads us [...]

Wright on Gnosticism

Check it out.  Godpod has a couple of mp3’s on their site where NT Wright is being interviewed about Gnosticism and the Resurrection.  Good stuff.  

More resurrection eschatology in hymns

One of my favorite hymns is Bill Gaither’s “Because He Lives.”  It’s a great song, but I have a minor quarrel with it.  Look at the last verse. 
And then one day, I’ll cross the river,
I’ll fight life’s final war with pain.
And then, as death gives way to victory,
I’ll see the lights of glory and I’ll [...]

The Resurrection of the Son of God 4

I’ve been slowing working my way through NT Wright’s The Resurrection of the Son of God.  The next section of the book deals with what the apostle Paul believed and taught about the resurrection and “life after death.”  Since the material in Corinthian letters are so debated among the Jesus Seminar, Wright covers Paul’s other [...]

The Resurrection of the Son of God

I’m a book addict.  I can’t stop buying them.  And since it’s Easter time, I bought Wright’s The Resurrection of the Son of God.
 It’s really a good book so I thought I would blog out some summaries of it.

Anti-Jesus

Since the term “Anti-Jesus” was brought into question yesterday, I thought that I would show where I was getting it from. 

Brian, what are you thinking?

So the other day my wife and I went to Rapid City, SD and we stopped in a Borders there.  BTW, I really like Borders.  But what deeply troubled me was seeing an endorsement on this book.  John Crossan and Marcus Borg are two of the leading anti-Jesus scholars; so what in the world is [...]