It's rare to find a scholarly review that scores a 'haha' funny... if ur lucky, u may get a 'hehe' chuckle or a smile...
DA Carson recommended this review on Crossan's The Historical Jesus for its 'fall-off-the-chair' humor, and I'm not disappointed. Cant believe it was written overnight!
Some highlights...
"... strictly speaking, modernists have holes, and positivists have nests, but the Son of Postmodernism ought to have nowhere to lay his head."
"There is therefore now no solipsism for those who engage in critical realism;
For the law of the freshly storied world has set you free from the law of private worlds and inner tension between modern and postmodern.
For what positivist historiography could not achieve, in that it was weak through the postmodern critique, critical realism can achieve,
Offering itself in the likeness of postmodernism’s stories, it condemns postmodernism’s collapse into mere story,
In order that the brokerless kingdom of public truth may be available to all who walk not according to positivism, nor according to relativism, but according to a newly storied public world."
PS: Stephen Tong's surgery to clear some blocked heart artery is scheduled for 3rd August... knowing him, he'd expected to be up and running 2 weeks later. Pls keep him in prayer!
DA Carson recommended this review on Crossan's The Historical Jesus for its 'fall-off-the-chair' humor, and I'm not disappointed. Cant believe it was written overnight!
Some highlights...
"... strictly speaking, modernists have holes, and positivists have nests, but the Son of Postmodernism ought to have nowhere to lay his head."
"There is therefore now no solipsism for those who engage in critical realism;
For the law of the freshly storied world has set you free from the law of private worlds and inner tension between modern and postmodern.
For what positivist historiography could not achieve, in that it was weak through the postmodern critique, critical realism can achieve,
Offering itself in the likeness of postmodernism’s stories, it condemns postmodernism’s collapse into mere story,
In order that the brokerless kingdom of public truth may be available to all who walk not according to positivism, nor according to relativism, but according to a newly storied public world."
PS: Stephen Tong's surgery to clear some blocked heart artery is scheduled for 3rd August... knowing him, he'd expected to be up and running 2 weeks later. Pls keep him in prayer!
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