tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417197.post113656328133412046..comments2023-07-21T09:30:47.335-07:00Comments on MoBlo: InG we T - Supernatural expansionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417197.post-1136822420694724962006-01-09T08:00:00.000-08:002006-01-09T08:00:00.000-08:00Yeah, I have always found it a shame we never get ...Yeah, I have always found it a shame we never get presented with more monotony is Jesus' life. I wonder how much this colors our perceptions of divinity. Perhaps it is like people's perceptions of missions. They hear the stories from the homecoming and assume that arresting miracles happen every day, when in reality it is mainly months of tedium interspersed with the occasional significant chris ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07058031349104748778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417197.post-1136667253110275332006-01-07T12:54:00.000-08:002006-01-07T12:54:00.000-08:00Well the second and third ones obviously allow for...Well the second and third ones obviously allow for a lot of innovation in retellings of the stories, however the first form can also serve an important "editing" function as well where lots of information which simply isn't very attention arresting gets either forgotten or modified.<BR/><BR/>John Meier's work on Jesus jives very well with such a notion.Jeff Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11344848794614278761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417197.post-1136582470389404222006-01-06T13:21:00.000-08:002006-01-06T13:21:00.000-08:00Just a question Jeffrey, of the 4 points, which wo...Just a question Jeffrey, of the 4 points, which would you say has seen the most focus for expansion? <BR/><BR/> I would tend to say (3) incomplete processing. It seems like the modern trinity really focusses on this aspect of Christ. Well, at least this really stood out for me at the Christmas Mass I just went to.chris ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07058031349104748778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417197.post-1136582359180027412006-01-06T13:19:00.000-08:002006-01-06T13:19:00.000-08:00Yeah, I actually edited out the extra paragraph I ...Yeah, I actually edited out the extra paragraph I had that said basically that. However, it sets up a slippery slope that would carry away some things that are probably quite concrete.<BR/><BR/>I certainly think gospel reporters expanded on areas they found the most interesting. No doubt these involved the 4 points Atran mentioned. However since this leaves so much room for handwaving, I feelchris ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07058031349104748778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417197.post-1136577506166796852006-01-06T11:58:00.000-08:002006-01-06T11:58:00.000-08:00I think that your account of Jesus' story should b...I think that your account of Jesus' story should be modified. What Atran would really claim about Jesus' story is that the parts (and possibly inventions) of his life which were better candidates for transmission were the only ones which survived the oral transmission into the New Testament as we now have it. This is a far more interesting claim in my opinion.Jeff Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11344848794614278761noreply@blogger.com