tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12543231.post54647280892106285..comments2023-06-15T09:41:19.355-05:00Comments on NT/History Blog: Wright, Hays, and a 3rd Option(?)Bill Heromanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05283809456471966882noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12543231.post-68999288744549609082010-04-25T20:13:27.047-05:002010-04-25T20:13:27.047-05:00I was thinking the 'guiding hand' is the c...I was thinking the 'guiding hand' is the context, and the text was the 'thrust'.<br /><br />But yeah, the whole point is that some people fear reconstructing a fuller context will amount to 'loaded' untrustworthy History.<br /><br />I wouldn't want my preferred Historian claiming to have been divinely inspired in their Storytelling, however. That sounds dangerous.Bill Heromanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283809456471966882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12543231.post-25552700372715686002010-04-25T19:02:08.285-05:002010-04-25T19:02:08.285-05:00I haven't been following the conversation, but...I haven't been following the conversation, but based on what I think you're saying here, I can't help but wonder; If the 'thrusting hand' are the four Gospels, which most Christian scholars believe to be divinely inspired, then I think that many want to be able to know that the 'guiding hand' is inspired as well. Otherwise, they'll have a 'mixture'...leaven in the loaf, so to speak.<br /><br />It reminds me of certain believers who 'only read the bible' for Spiritual nourishment as they believe that commentaries are too loaded with speculation, and agenda.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com