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Old 05-20-2012, 01:02 AM   #1
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Default RIP Walter Wink, historical Jesus scholar

Walter Wink, Theologian and Author, Dies at 76

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Dr. Wink compared Jesus to the community organizer Saul Alinsky in the clever ways Jesus advised nonviolence to get the upper hand. For his own part, Dr. Wink visited South Africa, East Germany, Central America and Chile to support nonviolent resistance there.

More broadly, Dr. Wink asserted that because Jesus had defined himself almost exclusively as “son of man,” he saw his task as not so much helping people to prepare for the next life but as helping them to be more human in this one.
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Those horrible Christians. I came across his name researching government archives related to Morton Smith. Apparently he did a search of whatever the US government had on,Smith
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He was quoted in an article "Was Jesus Gay?" on Salon.com in 1998 (dead link <http://www.salon.com/feature/1998/04/cov_10feature.html> Wink also discredited Morton Smith's fragment, describing him as "a closeted gay -- due to his time period -- who became a bitter atheist...
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Hence my frequent discussions of related topics here. It all comes down is the letter to theodore a reflection of ancient or modern "gayness"
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Hence my frequent discussions of related topics here. It all comes down is the letter to theodore a reflection of ancient or modern "gayness"
What's your opinion on Bar Saba? Do you think Smith forged it?
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Of course not. I subscribe to more than enough unfounded theories. Don't need another
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