Friday, January 23, 2009

Another memorable theological proposition

"Emmaus never happened. Emmaus always happens"

James Dominic Crossan on Luke 24:13-32 in Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography.

Again, I'm not saying it is agreeable, simply memorable!

11 Comments:

At 1/23/2009 3:48 AM, Anonymous Levi said...

i could swear i read this quote somewhere else, but i do have that book so maybe that's where it was from. quite memorable

 
At 1/23/2009 5:17 AM, Anonymous Chris said...

I'm pretty sure his name's John Domininc Crossan.

 
At 1/23/2009 6:11 AM, Anonymous One of Freedom said...

Crossan didn't say that. Crossan always says that!

 
At 1/23/2009 7:46 AM, Anonymous patmccullough.com said...

Oh, Crossan. That crazy cat. So mysterious.

 
At 1/23/2009 3:37 PM, Anonymous Carl W. Conrad said...

I think this is a pericope very much like that of the woman caught in adultery: whether or not it actually happened, it clearly belongs to our store of Biblical resources for understanding the gospel message.

 
At 1/23/2009 3:55 PM, Anonymous Angie Van De Merwe said...

Is it objective/subjective question of truth? Did it really happen?

 
At 1/23/2009 11:26 PM, Anonymous James said...

Didn't NT Wright quote it too in Jesus and the Victory of God (I think)?

 
At 1/23/2009 11:41 PM, Anonymous Chris Tilling said...

I fliipin called him "James" ?????????? ????????????????????????? ??????????? ??????????

OK, I was tired last night!

Let's face it, that JOHN Dominic Crossan can be wonderfully eloquent.

I found this quote in a Borg chapter in The Meaning of Jesus, though I am sure it is quoted in a number of places.

 
At 1/24/2009 3:54 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

James:
Wright quotes it in The Resurrection of the Son of God. I just happened to read that page today.

 
At 1/24/2009 12:37 PM, Anonymous Carl W. Conrad said...

I suspect that Crossan's proposition was inspired by this passage from the prologue to the first novel Thomas Mann's Joseph Tetralogy, The Tales of Jacob: "For it is, always is, however much we may say It was . Thus speaks the myth, which is only the garment of the mystery . But the holiday garment of the mystery is the feast, the recurrent feast which bestrides the tenses and makes the has-been and the to-be present to the popular sense."

 
At 2/02/2009 8:16 PM, Anonymous Edward T. Babinski said...

I like Price's memorable theological proposition: What does it mean to say "I believe the Bible?" How is that the same or different as saying, "I believe Hamlet, or, I believe the Illiad?"

 

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