06-12-2007, 12:54 PM
Meadville-Lombard Theological school has some very good articles online...see: http://meadville.edu/LL_JournalLR.htm
Two of interest are -
Retiring Belief in the Ressurrection, Claiming the Sayings Tradition
Marvin L Cooke
"It will be argued that the evidence supports a claim that the ressurrection was real as a personal experience for particular individuals but not a claim that the resurrection was an objective, publicly available event as we understand historical events today."
Crisis-Tragedy-Promise I: A Diagnosis of Contemporary Religious Liberalism
Michael Hogue
"What has been forgotten, as another great liberal thinker put this, is that liberal religion’s methodical commitments to freedom of conscience, conviction, and of the search for truth “does not exclude order or the giving of oneself to something that transcends the self.”3
Two of interest are -
Retiring Belief in the Ressurrection, Claiming the Sayings Tradition
Marvin L Cooke
"It will be argued that the evidence supports a claim that the ressurrection was real as a personal experience for particular individuals but not a claim that the resurrection was an objective, publicly available event as we understand historical events today."
Crisis-Tragedy-Promise I: A Diagnosis of Contemporary Religious Liberalism
Michael Hogue
"What has been forgotten, as another great liberal thinker put this, is that liberal religion’s methodical commitments to freedom of conscience, conviction, and of the search for truth “does not exclude order or the giving of oneself to something that transcends the self.”3