Seen Thursday in the Dispatch-Argus, the daily newspaper in the Illinois Quad-Cities, a quote from Kierkegaard that I hadn't seen before (and haven't been able to find in a cursory Google keyword search). It was in a column picked up from the Los Angeles Times news service: The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard famously observed that … Continue reading File under Kierkegaard (?)
A historian’s quest for the historical Jesus
[Copied here from my other blog Hemlandssånger June 13.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0f78MDOUJw Merle Haggard - [cover of Woody Guthrie's] Jesus Christ It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography and call it biography. ― John Dominic Crossan, Over the … Continue reading A historian’s quest for the historical Jesus