Toto

From Jesus to Christianity

Vorkosigan

Here is a review of Vanhoozer's book on Findarticles.

As you can see, Vanhoozer is one of those Reformed Theology yammerheads, who <guffaw> believes in "properly basic" beliefs.

• "After having secured a role for the author at the level of the communicative act, Vanhoozer turns to the issue of the text. He argues, taking his cue from Reformed epistemology, that the belief in determinate textual meaning is properly basic."

What is a proper basic belief?

• This is a belief not based on evidence, but rather on intuition, or what Reid calls common sense.

<ROFL>

"A determinate textual meaning is properly basic?" Looks like a culturally relative and utterly derived belief to me.

Vorkosigan

Diogenes the Cynic

For an introduction to NT Criticism I think that Bart Ehrman's books are quite accessible and provide a solid presentation. Ehrman's one of the better writers out ther when it comes to communicating the information in a readable and easily comprehensible manner.

I would also recommend that steering your friend to Peter Kirby's ECW site. He can get a lot of info just from that.

Wallener

I don't get it. From the blurb it sounds like he points out the problems with deconstructionism - and then turns around and tries to justify applying his own brand of deconstructionism to the texts he views as having meaning.

Am I missing something?

Toto

The topic of this thread is a request for recommendations of books. Amadeo's posts have been split off into their own thread here.