Posted by TJH @ 9:37 pm on July 26th 2008

16 Milestones in Thinking about Just War

This is the 65th anniversary of the Allied firebomb-murder of (more…)

Posted by TJH @ 6:18 pm on July 3rd 2008

N. T. Wright on the Resurrection

The thesis is that the “Easter belief” of the early Christians (a) refers intentionally to a literal, physical (not merely spiritual) raising of Jesus from the dead, and (b) the mode and breadth of this belief can only be explained on the hypothesis that that is what actually happened. The thesis is pursued in specific and detailed interaction with the Leben Jesu literature, most of which denies the resurrection. The characteristic emphasis that we would expect from Wright is (more…)