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resurrection

Why DeConick is wrong about history and scholarship

September 17, 2009

April DeConick writes another of those posts on the resurrection which conclude with their own initial presuppositions. So, for example, she writes:
There is a big difference between confessional scholarship and its working assumptions and historical-critical scholarship and its working assumptions, and we must never confuse the two. Confessional scholarship is willing to compromise and apologize [...]

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Getting confused over the resurrection

August 30, 2009

(This post is one of a sporadic series on the Church of England’s Thirty-nine Articles)
Beyond bare affirmations of faith, where we enter the territory of explanation, it becomes difficult to say anything about the resurrection that will not be controversial. So it’s hardly surprising that I find the language of the fourth article controversial – [...]

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