lpetrich
March 23, 2004, 11:39 PM
He's at The Jesus Puzzle (http://www.jesuspuzzle.com).
He has a long and very approving review of Richard Price's The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man. Judging from ED's review, RP comes to the same sort of conclusion he does -- that the Gospels are little more than mythology, with very little of a "historic Jesus Christ" apparent -- if any. An interesting curiosity is that JC's divinity/sonship gets pushed farther and farther back in time in later and later documents:
Epistles - resurrection
Mark - baptism (he's God's adopted son)
Matthew and Luke - conception (God make his mother pregnant)
John - always existed (God's alter ego?)
I have it on order from Amazon (http://www.amazon.com), but it still has not arrived.
By contrast, he considers Mel Gibson's The Passion a very disturbing gorefest; he is turned off by the idea that a supposedly omnibenevolent entity wants a gross blood sacrifice.
For my part, I have no intention of seeing it even though it has Monica Bellucci (Mary Magdalene) in it.
He has a long and very approving review of Richard Price's The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man. Judging from ED's review, RP comes to the same sort of conclusion he does -- that the Gospels are little more than mythology, with very little of a "historic Jesus Christ" apparent -- if any. An interesting curiosity is that JC's divinity/sonship gets pushed farther and farther back in time in later and later documents:
Epistles - resurrection
Mark - baptism (he's God's adopted son)
Matthew and Luke - conception (God make his mother pregnant)
John - always existed (God's alter ego?)
I have it on order from Amazon (http://www.amazon.com), but it still has not arrived.
By contrast, he considers Mel Gibson's The Passion a very disturbing gorefest; he is turned off by the idea that a supposedly omnibenevolent entity wants a gross blood sacrifice.
For my part, I have no intention of seeing it even though it has Monica Bellucci (Mary Magdalene) in it.