New book on the Jesus myth

[unkleE]

I'm not sure if anyone is interested (I can't say I am all that much) but I have come across a new book promoting (yes!) a new view of Jesus that has somehow escaped all the world's scholars. It's Secret of the Saviour, and it's written by a guy with a Master of Theological Studies and a thesis on Mark's Gospel. But he's also a Unitarian, so I guess he has his own unique reason for wanting Jesus to be a myth.

Just posting this as news.

[evangelion]

Mar 14, 2014 4:30:41 GMT unkleE said:

But he's also a Unitarian

Must be a Universalist Unitarian. Rationalist Unitarians and Biblical Unitarians would never deny the existence of the historical Jesus.

[wraggy]

Mar 14, 2014 6:15:18 GMT evangelion said:

Mar 14, 2014 4:30:41 GMT unkleE said:

But he's also a Unitarian

Must be a Universalist Unitarian. Rationalist Unitarians and Biblical Unitarians would never deny the existence of the historical Jesus.

As soon as I read Unklee's comment about "Unitarians" I thought that either you or Big Bro would be all over this quicker than Gina Rheinhart on a lamb chop.

[evangelion]

Mar 14, 2014 6:45:03 GMT wraggy said:

Mar 14, 2014 6:15:18 GMT evangelion said:

Must be a Universalist Unitarian. Rationalist Unitarians and Biblical Unitarians would never deny the existence of the historical Jesus.

As soon as I read Unklee's comment about "Unitarians" I thought that either you or Big Bro would be all over this quicker than Gina Rheinhart on a lamb chop.

[sandwiches]

tomverenna.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/secret-of-the-savior-book-makes-some-bizarre-claims/

[evangelion]

But there is more. There is always more when a dilettante attempts to write about a subject about which they are unfamiliar.

*cough*

Good points though.

[wraggy]

Mar 14, 2014 11:10:53 GMT evangelion said:

But there is more. There is always more when a dilettante attempts to write about a subject about which they are unfamiliar.

*cough*

Good points though.

Tom Verenna said:

A commenter by the name of Sid Martin left me a note about a forthcoming book he is writing (self-publishing?) on the Gos. Mark which looks to be absolutely dreadful. Here is the ‘about the book’ section quoted in full:

I just loved the last commentators name: A Mythicist Salm of Lament

Classic.

[ignorantianescia]

Mar 14, 2014 6:45:03 GMT wraggy said:

As soon as I read Unklee's comment about "Unitarians" I thought that either you or Big Bro would be all over this quicker than Gina Rheinhart on a lamb chop.

Same here, but I thought it with a much more mundane, dull phrasing. Still, it was a justified comment by Sankari.

Mar 14, 2014 6:15:18 GMT evangelion said:

Must be a Universalist Unitarian. Rationalist Unitarians and Biblical Unitarians would never deny the existence of the historical Jesus.

That's likely correct, the church's website is indeed very UU-esque.

Mar 14, 2014 13:22:43 GMT wraggy said:

Mar 14, 2014 11:10:53 GMT evangelion said:

*cough*

Good points though.

I just loved the last commentators name: A Mythicist Salm of Lament

Classic.

It's actually a trackback from Exploring Our Matrix: www.patheos.com/blogs/exploringourmatrix/2012/12/pseudoscholars-at-sbl.html

[timoneill]

Mar 14, 2014 11:10:53 GMT evangelion said:

But there is more. There is always more when a dilettante attempts to write about a subject about which they are unfamiliar.

*cough*

The irony! Once again "Rook Hawkins" desperately apes a real scholar in the hope that one day someone will mistake him for one.