There and Back Again
Sorry for the delay of posts, I went on vacation to California with my family to enjoy some sunny skies, Disneyland, and free food. Posts are going to be starting up this week, continuing with the Contemporary Trinitarianism posts. Vacation was great, I had a chance to read some novels. I finally got around to reading both Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, and Tolkien's The Children of Hurin. I came away feeling that both were slightly odd books to read on a sunny vacation: the Name of the Rose was more laborious than I had anticipated (though I also really enjoyed it) and the Children of Hurin was much, (much) darker and tragic than I anticipated (though I loved it) though it had the added pleasure of rounding out my reading of Tolkien's corpus (Ive read the standards like The Hobbit, LotR, The Silmarillion, and others like The Unfinished Tales). At any rate blogging should commence shortly.
For now I leave you with this news report of the latest research coming from the University of Gothenburg by Gunnar Samuelsson, who recently wrote a 400 page thesis regarding evidence for Jesus' death via crucifixion. You can find the article about his thesis here though unfortunately the article itself is not very forthcoming on some of the minutia of the evidences. What Samuelsson is decidedly not arguing, as is made clear, is that his thesis is not some variation of the so-called "swoon theory," nor is he arguing that Christ didnt die on calvary (he is in fact a Christian who, for example, is quite adamant about the Trinity, the Incarnation, etc...) Rather his thesis centers upon the traditional understanding of the method of Christ's death. Give it a look, and if anyone knows if there is access online to his thesis, please let me know!
For now I leave you with this news report of the latest research coming from the University of Gothenburg by Gunnar Samuelsson, who recently wrote a 400 page thesis regarding evidence for Jesus' death via crucifixion. You can find the article about his thesis here though unfortunately the article itself is not very forthcoming on some of the minutia of the evidences. What Samuelsson is decidedly not arguing, as is made clear, is that his thesis is not some variation of the so-called "swoon theory," nor is he arguing that Christ didnt die on calvary (he is in fact a Christian who, for example, is quite adamant about the Trinity, the Incarnation, etc...) Rather his thesis centers upon the traditional understanding of the method of Christ's death. Give it a look, and if anyone knows if there is access online to his thesis, please let me know!
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