How to Ruin Your Education and TV Viewing
Five Lessons from John Dominic Crossan
- Apologetics
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Published: 2022
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Publisher's Description
What will you do as a parent if your fourteen-year-old comes home from school and says, "You and the teachers have been telling me Columbus discovered the Americas. You've lied to me because that isn't true. There are no such things as facts, and I decide the meaning of what is written in my textbooks. I'm the one who chooses the interpretation of any writing, including history and the stories of Columbus"? How are you going to answer, especially in light of what the Encyclopaedia Britannica states about Columbus? This book examines how historical Jesus scholar John Dominic Crossan has dismantled education, TV viewing (by application), and religious studies with his postmodern deconstruction of the text. His theme is "I formulate it here as I see it." Texts and interpretations are out of the mind of Crossan. Using a hypothesis testing technique, the author challenges Crossan's perspective that Jesus's resurrection was an apparition and not a bodily resurrection. Even though he calls on others to "First, read the text," that is not what he does. The philosophical crusher has found him out to be contradictory in his assessment of history in his autobiography and his own writings on the historical Jesus.
Endorsements (2)
“I’ve known Spencer Gear for many years, and I’ve always found him to be a bright, dedicated scholar with the highest integrity and a heart for the welfare of God’s people. His book is both astute and helpful. I’m looking forward to seeing how God will use it to build his kingdom.”
“Hypothesis testing technique, philosophical crushers, subjectivity in reading, appeal to objectivity in first reading the text, and Crossan’s challenge to first read the text. With this combination of lenses and methods of reading, Gear challenges Crossan’s understanding of the resurrection of Jesus. Interesting approach, interesting read.”
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