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11 Dec 07

April DeConick: Conservative or Liberal Scholar?

That title sounds almost polemical. No, it’s meant rather to point to her own interesting post of a similar title (a couple weeks old, I have to admit… I’m still catching up on my blog reading after the quarter has ended). She talks about her experiences with interviewers from the press about her new book [...]

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1 Feb 07

Anti-faith scholars vs. uncritical scholars?

I have just had an interaction with April DeConick regarding her approach to early Christianity and the response of some bibliobloggers to it. Tensions seem to be revealing themselves and I would like to explore them for a moment. Here is a quote from April DeConick’s Forbidden Gospels Blog:
What impedes our examination of early [...]

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31 Jan 07

Secular Approaches to Christian Origins

April DeConick, Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies at Rice University, has joined the blogging world this past week with her Forbidden Gospels Blog. I’ve noticed because she’s been welcomed by bloggers at PaleoJudaica, The Busybody, Earliest Christian History, Hypotyposeis, Deinde (with a brief welcome and a longer critique of her [...]

0 Comments Posted in April DeConick, blogging, canon, christian origins, early church, secular perspectives by Patrick George McCullough