Posts Tagged Baylor University
Kenneth Starr named Baylor University president
Posted by Joel in Religious News on February 15, 2010
Kenneth W. Starr, the former independent counsel whose work led to the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton, was named president of Baylor University this morning, sources said.
Review: The Historiographical Jesus
Posted by Joel in Book Review on November 4, 2009
From Amazon:
The Historiographical Jesus introduces a new theory and approach for studying the life of Jesus. Anthony Le Donne uses the precepts of social memory theory to identify memory refraction in the Jesus tradition the refocusing distortion that occurs as the stories and sayings of Jesus were handed down and consciously and unconsciously framed in new settings with new applications. Recognition of this refraction allows historians to escape the problematic dichotomy between memory and typology. The author focuses on the title “Son of David” as it was used in Jewish and Christian traditions to demonstrate both how his new theory functions and to advance historical Jesus research.
- Hardcover: 309 pages
- Publisher: Baylor University Press (August 15, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1602580650
- ISBN-13: 978-1602580657
Goulder’s Presuppositions on Acts
I am currently reading through Anthony Le Donne’s book, The Historiographical Jesus, and came across his entry into presuppositions, which he quotes Goulder on Acts. Michael Goulder laid down two presuppositions for the study of Act in his 1964 work, Type and History in Acts:
