youngalexander

There was a quite favourable review in The Age A2.

An extract from Existential Jesus will run in A2 next Saturday.

neilgodfrey

Thanks for the notice. I've added it with brief comment to my list of other comments/reviews on my blog. I notice the review is by a fellow sociologist, not a religionist. There is one cleric giving a favourable review, but he concludes it with a hope that Carroll's book will prompt more acceptance of the churches -- presumably on the strength of Carroll's argument that the Gospel of John tries to redeem Peter insofar as he's destined to be the leader of the weaker and more problematic immature christians who need the security of the church, and can't go it alone like true existentialists.

Carroll seems to think it's important to find personal meaning in the gospel. I can't go beyond seeing the gospel as a historical text from which I'd like to decipher historical understanding. Lucky Carroll has plenty of footnotes to drop me tidbits along the way.

Neil Godfrey

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neilgodfrey

No. I think I'd look for certain books on Greek literature, esp tragedies, to follow through that concept of sin.