tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post4462060418854587147..comments2024-03-28T14:19:53.973+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Yet more Crass (2)Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-19049839003771146032021-06-23T02:58:42.280+01:002021-06-23T02:58:42.280+01:00"Graecorum iste morbus fuit quaerere quem num..."Graecorum iste morbus fuit quaerere quem numerum Ulixes remigum habuisset, prior scripta esset Ilias an Odyssia."<br />— Seneca, I believe, although modern NT scholarship is a rather worse case of missing the point. Fr. Michael LaRuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04824777871450270095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-63611020446170167482021-06-20T15:52:06.717+01:002021-06-20T15:52:06.717+01:00Lynn -
Having read R’a “Intro to C” I think that ...Lynn -<br /><br />Having read R’a “Intro to C” I think that it is no denying that in his book questioned what “the body” might mean in the Greek, and he was trying to find some way to admit the skeptics of the “bodily resurrection” into the fold.<br /><br />Yet in other books, perhaps published later (?) he outright what if Ivrecall correctly was Bultmann’s impoverished notion of “the resurrectedChristopher Boegelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162023841937939481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-39755964390633695292021-06-20T15:36:13.591+01:002021-06-20T15:36:13.591+01:00Dear The Saint Bede Studio: "The Hebrew Chris...Dear The Saint Bede Studio: "The Hebrew Christ" makes a powerful argument, based on Tresmontant's knowledge of Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek, that there were notes taken down verbatim of what Our Lord said and did during His time on earth, and that all of the Gospels were collated within a few years of His death.<br /><br />It should be read in conjunction with Robert Geis' two frjustinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10109539584303934489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-78946863486258142562021-06-20T14:01:54.791+01:002021-06-20T14:01:54.791+01:00An interesting and informative post: thank you Fr....An interesting and informative post: thank you Fr. Hunwicke.<br /><br />Biblical scholars are like most groups of academic experts in that they strongly feel the need to conform with the current zeitgeist, not rock the boat and confine themselves to the current received wisdom or paradigm. It's a problem in science that gives rise to such absurd concepts as "The Science" in Greyman 82https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472976732157444972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-88296034408455086392021-06-20T11:25:12.520+01:002021-06-20T11:25:12.520+01:00lynn: as Aquinas used Aristotle to explain Christi...lynn: as Aquinas used Aristotle to explain Christian theology, so Ratzinger uses Jean-Paul Sartre to describe our existence in terms of being and its dynamic Christian model of "being for"; Teilhard de Chardin for insights on the Resurrection; and Bultmann's demythologizing proposition, applying it to Heaven and Hell, and not to the Gospels.<br />frjustinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10109539584303934489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-29472651407839740722021-06-20T08:46:58.749+01:002021-06-20T08:46:58.749+01:00Read Ratzinger's Introduction to Christianity ...Read Ratzinger's Introduction to Christianity a book he published in the 60's, and was republished in 2000 with no adjustments by the author. He endorses the Bultmann view. Modern man has exceeded the Gospels and the Apostles in wisdom and knowledge. The scales will fall from the eyes when you read the "conservative" Benedict.lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18241812863817316056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-33910776732431731662021-06-20T07:56:56.258+01:002021-06-20T07:56:56.258+01:00It's like when cultured outsiders like Yehudi ...It's like when cultured outsiders like Yehudi Menuhin expressed dismay that the venerable Roman Rite was to be replaced by a modern concoction. A Jewish violinist could see problems that a liturgical expert like, err, Bugnini could not. <br /><br /><br />Grant Milburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11381331872077276383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-85821988763956364212021-06-20T03:20:42.002+01:002021-06-20T03:20:42.002+01:00Are readers familiar with Claude Tresmontant's...Are readers familiar with Claude Tresmontant's "The Hebrew Christ" published in translation by the Franciscan Herald Press (Chicago) in 1989? The Saint Bede Studiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02694483852852112838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-48415639713797760332021-06-19T17:15:49.210+01:002021-06-19T17:15:49.210+01:00"Butler deployed arguments for regarding Matt..."Butler deployed arguments for regarding Matthew as the first Gospel" -- and Enoch Powell, a classical scholar of the front rank, came to the same conclusion in "The Evolution of the Gospel".Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06908070025869221948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-50217467823411480942021-06-19T15:46:43.555+01:002021-06-19T15:46:43.555+01:00CS Lewis had it right (a thought it appears he sha...CS Lewis had it right (a thought it appears he shared with Pope Francis). 'The proper study of shepherds is sheep, not (save accidentally) other shepherds.'motupropriohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06261356560114077508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-15294207682780283852021-06-19T13:36:30.300+01:002021-06-19T13:36:30.300+01:00Cheerful article. I have read Robinson's book....Cheerful article. I have read Robinson's book. An open mind and common sense go a long way towards understanding.P. O'Brienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03184466434314298715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-24274396654276252932021-06-19T13:15:44.105+01:002021-06-19T13:15:44.105+01:00The fundamental weakness of "modern biblical ...The fundamental weakness of "modern biblical criticism" is that it remains trapped inside its own presuppositions.<br /><br />Bultmann reveals this a priori mental trap in his famous quote, "We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern medical and clinical means and at the same time believe in the spirit and wonder world of the ChrisBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07371187001977645056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-18527631220560841142021-06-19T12:57:16.610+01:002021-06-19T12:57:16.610+01:00More from Lietzmann: "The ancient custom of r...More from Lietzmann: "The ancient custom of reading the Hebrew scriptures in the synagogue necessitated a translation into the Aramaic which the people understood, the original text and the translation followed one another verse for verse. Dubious passages were not translated, but read only in Hebrew. Originally the translations were extemporaneous, but naturally they soon assumed forms frjustinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10109539584303934489noreply@blogger.com