tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4332139268702707957.post4056095853234627893..comments2023-08-10T19:27:13.498+12:00Comments on Hermeneutics and Human Dignity: Bauckham attests to significance of gospel eye-witnessesPeter Carrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4332139268702707957.post-20826202553202754542009-06-27T13:27:09.302+12:002009-06-27T13:27:09.302+12:00They are good questions, Howard!
Perhaps the poin...They are good questions, Howard!<br /><br />Perhaps the point is that 'reshaping' in the presence of either eye-witnesses or the possibility of appeal to eye-witnesses had some limits ... stories could not be totally revised as though they were Soviet statistics of Ukrainian tractor production!Peter Carrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09535218286799156659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4332139268702707957.post-1875448796498184302009-06-27T10:52:43.210+12:002009-06-27T10:52:43.210+12:00I too have found Bauckham's book fascinating. ...I too have found Bauckham's book fascinating. It places, or restores, an important element into the discussion about the development of the gospels. However, to my mind it doesn't banish the questions raised by 20th century form criticism and tradition history, but rather shifts them into another dimension. <br />A new set of questions arises. What happens to the voice of an eyewitness within a community of faith in which their own story has become community property, indeed the foundational story of the group, preached and expounded and defended and suffered for by new generations of believers? To what extent are the eyewitness's memories shaped by this communal process? Given that gospel writers may be aware of this communal process and wanting to counter it, can they differentate between their own desire to appeal to the eyewitness as validation and actually allowing the community's account to be significantly corrected by the eyewitness? <br />Having spent eight years within a intensive faith community that constantly reworked the story of its origins, these are living issues for me. I want to take some time to bring them to an ordered response to Bauckham's thesis before long.Howard Pilgrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11822571103485207143noreply@blogger.com