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1a91491 However it--or the kind of extreme individualistic epistemology it embraces--can lead historians to an overly skeptical approach particularly to those sources that were intended to recount and inform events of the past, that is, testimony in this restricted sense. Particularly in Gospels scholarship there is an attitude abroad that approaches the sources with fundamental skepticism, rather than trust, and therefore requires that anything the sources claim be accepted only if historians can independently verify it..... wisdom facts christian-gnosticism christian-history christian-mystics conversion-of-paul epistles epistles-of-paul gentile gnostic gnostic-gospels gnosticism gospel-of-john grosticicm historical-facts historicity-of-paul mystics solomon synoptic-gospels tanakh church christ-myth-theory historicity-of-jesus paul jewish Richard Bauckham
9c74e1b Young scholars, learning their historical method from Gospel scholars, often treat it as self-evident that the more skeptical they are toward their sources, the more rigorous will be their historical method. It has to be said, over and over, that historical rigor does not consist in fundamental skepticism toward historical testimony but in fundamental trust along with testing by critical questioning... myth christ-myth ecstatic-visions jesus-myth jewish-messiah messiah paul-s-visions unreliable visions christ-myth-theory historicity-of-jesus historicity-of-the-gospels jews Richard Bauckham
606d28d However it--or the kind of extreme individualistic epistemology it embraces--can lead historians to an overly skeptical approach particularly to those sources that were intended to recount and inform events of the past, that is, testimony in this restricted sense. Particularly in Gospels scholarship there is an attitude abroad that approaches the sources with fundamental skepticism, rather than trust, and therefore requires that anything the sources claim be accepted only if historians can independently verify it... christ-myth-theory eyewitnesses-of-jesus historicity-of-jesus historicity-of-the-bible historicity-of-the-gospels historicity-of-the-new-testament Richard Bauckham
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