June 8, 2009
In yesterday’s post I discussed some of the ways in which presuppositions and methodology are hopelessly entangled in Jesus research. One of the areas (as one would guess from her blog title) where April DeConick is particularly critical of presuppositions is with the way in which canonical texts are implicitly or explicitly privileged by the [...]
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June 8, 2009
Does the democratic process in and of itself convey legitimacy? For a long time it has been the staple assumption of Western political discourse, largely, and despite a fairly anti-democratic past, adopted wholesale by our churches in Europe. Now with the news that British constituencies have returned fascist representatives to the European Parliament (under what [...]
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