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by Clive
Thu May 19, 2016 9:52 am
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: The Islamic Christ
Replies: 1
Views: 29337

The Islamic Christ

by Clive
Tue May 17, 2016 12:22 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Jesus and Christ
Replies: 40
Views: 21249

Re: Jesus and Christ

Sounds like harrumph reactions - do not people realise they are emotionally committed to their perspectives and maybe should ask why they react as they do instead of thinking through arguments? I just think it's hypocritical to talk like this and then to fail to focus on the "arguments" y...
by Clive
Tue May 17, 2016 12:09 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Is Jesus in Mark merely human?
Replies: 6
Views: 4186

Re: Is Jesus in Mark merely human?

But there are different sorts of vessels :-) wine skins, amphora, dinghys ships, Saturn V .....

Is the son equal to the father?
by Clive
Tue May 17, 2016 6:25 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Is Jesus in Mark merely human?
Replies: 6
Views: 4186

Re: Is Jesus in Mark merely human?

21 They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach. 22 The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law. 23 Just then a man in their synagogue who was possessed by an impure sp...
by Clive
Tue May 17, 2016 3:06 am
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: Delilah and judas
Replies: 0
Views: 6909

Delilah and judas

Why did Delilah get so many more pieces of silver, and is there any meaning to the amounts?
by Clive
Mon May 16, 2016 10:47 pm
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: Structuralism
Replies: 3
Views: 9664

Re: Structuralism

Description This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the contributors, all anthropologists, rethink the vexed relationship between anthropology and Christianity. As Fe...
by Clive
Mon May 16, 2016 10:37 pm
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: Structuralism
Replies: 3
Views: 9664

Re: Structuralism

Anthropos - the study of man ( and how he becomes a god?) :-)
by Clive
Mon May 16, 2016 10:29 pm
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: Structuralism
Replies: 3
Views: 9664

Structuralism

Levi - Straus ......became fascinated with myth and legend. He believed that if you analysed myth around the world , you would understand how human cognition worked. the silo effect Gillian Tett p 38 I propose xianity is best studied From the perspective of historical anthropology, looking at its e...
by Clive
Mon May 16, 2016 8:20 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: 3-Year Ministry Timeline of Jesus
Replies: 343
Views: 150936

Re: 3-Year Ministry Timeline of Jesus

Or Jesus is a magician with some very up to date technology?
by Clive
Mon May 16, 2016 8:16 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: 3-Year Ministry Timeline of Jesus
Replies: 343
Views: 150936

Re: 3-Year Ministry Timeline of Jesus

May we look at the wedding in Cana? It might have been his wedding. The use of Hera's wine trick is fascinating as it is the sort of thing the very elite of society would do. Very few critical scholars would consider that wedding as being not fiction from gJohn (the only gospel where it appears). A...