[quote=""Zaphod""]Bart Ehrman[/quote]
If you love ad hominem, who am I to stop you?
Bart Ehrman has written several books and articles that are at least as good in their critical approach as the books written by any historians whose conclusions you like.
If this one book of his offends you enough to go on a crusade against his bona fides, so be it.
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Peter Kirby
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[quote=""Peter Kirby""]
Bart Ehrman has written several books and articles that are at least as good in their critical approach as the books written by any historians whose conclusions you like.
If this one book of his offends you enough to go on a crusade against his bona fides, so be it.[/QUOTE]
Don't you realize that it is not just an isolated case?
Carrier has admitted that Ehrman's "Did Jesus Exist?" is probably the worst book for the HJ argument. Carrier claimed "it is filled with factual errors, logical fallacies, and badly worded arguments".
Other scholars, including Doherty, Acharya S, Price, his own peers, have written articles exposing the fallacies of Ehrman in "Did Jesus Exist?"
If you love ad hominem, who am I to stop you?Zaphod;7559939 wrote:Bart Ehrman
Bart Ehrman has written several books and articles that are at least as good in their critical approach as the books written by any historians whose conclusions you like.
If this one book of his offends you enough to go on a crusade against his bona fides, so be it.[/QUOTE]
Don't you realize that it is not just an isolated case?
Carrier has admitted that Ehrman's "Did Jesus Exist?" is probably the worst book for the HJ argument. Carrier claimed "it is filled with factual errors, logical fallacies, and badly worded arguments".
Other scholars, including Doherty, Acharya S, Price, his own peers, have written articles exposing the fallacies of Ehrman in "Did Jesus Exist?"
[quote=""Peter Kirby""]Bart Ehrman has written several books and articles that are at least as good in their critical approach as the books written by any historians whose conclusions you like.
If this one book of his offends you enough to go on a crusade against his bona fides, so be it.[/quote]
Yes, most of those books were very good.
But the book in question is the latest; and attempts to assert something that virtually counters a few of those previous books,
with very poor arguments; so is the most controversial.
It quickly spurned several authors to collective write a rebutal -
Bart Ehrman and the Quest of the Historical Jesus of Nazareth
Richard Carrier Ph.D. (Author), D.M. Murdock (Author), René Salm (Author), Earl Doherty (Author), David Fitzgerald (Author), Robert M. Price Ph.D. (Editor), Frank R. Zindler (Editor)
If this one book of his offends you enough to go on a crusade against his bona fides, so be it.[/quote]
Yes, most of those books were very good.
But the book in question is the latest; and attempts to assert something that virtually counters a few of those previous books,
with very poor arguments; so is the most controversial.
It quickly spurned several authors to collective write a rebutal -
Bart Ehrman and the Quest of the Historical Jesus of Nazareth
Richard Carrier Ph.D. (Author), D.M. Murdock (Author), René Salm (Author), Earl Doherty (Author), David Fitzgerald (Author), Robert M. Price Ph.D. (Editor), Frank R. Zindler (Editor)
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Peter Kirby does not understand what ad hominem reasoning is. The discussion here is about how going to pastor school trains you to be a pastor, not a historian, and how there is an actual difference, which perhaps Peter Kirby does not comprehend. Are you a pastor, Peter Kirby?
We do not ask a dentist to fix a car, and nor should we ask a pastor for reliable information about history. If we do talk to pastors about history, we will find the information is corrupted by mumbo jumbo such as Erhman's Wheaton College mission statement with its assertions of the existence of Satan, evil powers, and that Jesus was true God and true man.
Erhman's Did Jesus Exist? is an exercise in homiletic politics, and is not intended to be read. Rather, it is a magic talisman that ignorant evangelists can wave at rationalists to ward off discussion.
If Ehrman chose to be trained at institutions that placed faith above reason, it is not unreasonable to expect the views he formed during his training might inform his books. Did Jesus Exist confirms that supposition.
[quote=""Zaphod""]
Here, for example, is text from the application for employment form at Dallas Theological Seminary, where there eleven professors of New Testament studies:
DOCTRINAL BELIEFS
Please write a brief statement describing your conversion to Christianity. Please indicate what a person must do to receive eternal life and when you took that first step.
The mission of Dallas Theological Seminary as a professional, graduate-level school is to prepare men and women for ministry as godly servant-leaders in the body of Christ worldwide. We are seeking applicants who are passionately committed to our mission and will subscribe in good faith to the schoolâs doctrinal beliefs.
Do you adhere to the following doctrines:
⢠The authority and inerrancy of the Scripture
⢠The Trinity
⢠The full deity and humanity of Christ
⢠The spiritual lostness of the human race
⢠The substitutionary atonement and bodily resurrection of Christ
⢠Salvation by faith alone, in Christ alone
⢠The physical return of Christ
Bart Ehrman received his education at Moody Bible Institute, Wheaton College, and the Princeton Theological Seminary. At Princeton, where he received his PhD, he was required to adhere to a Mission Statement, which includes the following paragraph:
"A professional and graduate school of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Seminary stands within the Reformed tradition, affirming the sovereignty of the triune God over all creation, the Gospel of Jesus Christ as Godâs saving word for all people, the renewing power of the word and Spirit in all of life, and the unity of Christâs servant church throughout the world. This tradition shapes the instruction, research, practical training, and continuing education provided by the Seminary, as well as the theological scholarship it promotes."
This is the mission statement from Wheaton College. Among other things, it asserts the existence of Satan, evil powers, and that Jesus was "true God and true man":
http://www.wheaton.edu/About-Wheaton/St ... al-Purpose
Does the scholarship evident in Ehrman's "Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth" indicate that Ehrman was doing historical research in the same manner as an actual historian?[/QUOTE]
We do not ask a dentist to fix a car, and nor should we ask a pastor for reliable information about history. If we do talk to pastors about history, we will find the information is corrupted by mumbo jumbo such as Erhman's Wheaton College mission statement with its assertions of the existence of Satan, evil powers, and that Jesus was true God and true man.
Erhman's Did Jesus Exist? is an exercise in homiletic politics, and is not intended to be read. Rather, it is a magic talisman that ignorant evangelists can wave at rationalists to ward off discussion.
If Ehrman chose to be trained at institutions that placed faith above reason, it is not unreasonable to expect the views he formed during his training might inform his books. Did Jesus Exist confirms that supposition.
[quote=""Zaphod""]
And what of the members of this august group of historians without an actual History degree, raised as Christians, educated in Christian institutions, and doing their "good faith" investigations as paid employees of religious institutions who demand adherence to a code of Doctrinal beliefs? Would it be an ad hominem to submit that such a background might well induce a lack of "good faith" scholarship?Peter Kirby;7559812 wrote: ...Also, these guys that are being called out for their affiliations. If they know Greek and other languages, know the primary sources, engage the secondary literature, and come to critical conclusions in all good faith, then they are doing nothing essentially different from what a historian would do, and bringing up their title can be taken as ad hominem.
Here, for example, is text from the application for employment form at Dallas Theological Seminary, where there eleven professors of New Testament studies:
DOCTRINAL BELIEFS
Please write a brief statement describing your conversion to Christianity. Please indicate what a person must do to receive eternal life and when you took that first step.
The mission of Dallas Theological Seminary as a professional, graduate-level school is to prepare men and women for ministry as godly servant-leaders in the body of Christ worldwide. We are seeking applicants who are passionately committed to our mission and will subscribe in good faith to the schoolâs doctrinal beliefs.
Do you adhere to the following doctrines:
⢠The authority and inerrancy of the Scripture
⢠The Trinity
⢠The full deity and humanity of Christ
⢠The spiritual lostness of the human race
⢠The substitutionary atonement and bodily resurrection of Christ
⢠Salvation by faith alone, in Christ alone
⢠The physical return of Christ
Bart Ehrman received his education at Moody Bible Institute, Wheaton College, and the Princeton Theological Seminary. At Princeton, where he received his PhD, he was required to adhere to a Mission Statement, which includes the following paragraph:
"A professional and graduate school of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Seminary stands within the Reformed tradition, affirming the sovereignty of the triune God over all creation, the Gospel of Jesus Christ as Godâs saving word for all people, the renewing power of the word and Spirit in all of life, and the unity of Christâs servant church throughout the world. This tradition shapes the instruction, research, practical training, and continuing education provided by the Seminary, as well as the theological scholarship it promotes."
This is the mission statement from Wheaton College. Among other things, it asserts the existence of Satan, evil powers, and that Jesus was "true God and true man":
http://www.wheaton.edu/About-Wheaton/St ... al-Purpose
Does the scholarship evident in Ehrman's "Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth" indicate that Ehrman was doing historical research in the same manner as an actual historian?[/QUOTE]