do to disinterest and no viewers in readers of blog "Thought for Food", I have decided to stop postings.
sadly. but what is, even was, the point?
"The notion that books may so broaden and deepen one's knowledge of life, and so sharpens one's perceptions, that he can live more wisely and judge more intelligently, has dropped out of...to a large extent, out of Victorian, in fact the modern, mind." -- The Victorian Frame of Mind, Walter E. Houghton, 1957, p. 119. (Extracts from recent readings. Photo at sunset atop a Mt Scopus building.)
Monday, December 16, 2013
Monday, December 9, 2013
world-views of "Jesus"
"From the Deists and Reimarus to Strauss and Renan, the world view that was brought to the study of the Gospels was decisive in the interpretation of Jesus....The history of the study of Jesus in European thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is as much a history of changing philosophies, theologies, and world views, as it is of growing refinements in historical techniques."
-- from the "Postscript" in Jesus in European Protestant Thought, 1778-1860, Colin Brown, 1985, p. 275.
-- from the "Postscript" in Jesus in European Protestant Thought, 1778-1860, Colin Brown, 1985, p. 275.
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