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Well, with my summer reading projects done, I'm on to reading what I want to read for myself, just a little every day. Back to James Dun...

Quote from Dunn's Jesus Remembered : When looking at figures across a historical gulf like Jesus, "the absence of some element of ...

Finished chapter 28 on Dating Paul. First half of chapter here . Dunn's dating is fairly conventional and very close to mine, although...

Only had a half hour to give to reading tonight and gave it to begin chapter 28 of James Dunn's Beginning from Jerusalem , "Dates, ...

Last week I started what will almost certainly be a long and yet incomplete read through James Dunn's Beginning from Jerusalem . For the...

I'm not wanting to step on the feet of Nijay Gupta (who is of course a real scholar), but I had been planning for some time to dawdle t...

If I were to write a chapter or essay on the question, "The New Perspective and the Wesleyan Tradition," it became clear to me thi...

"In view of a continued emphasis within Christianity on the Spirit as a second experience, subsequent to conversion (so still in classi...

This now the fourth in a series of reviews of James Dunn's book on the historical Jesus, Jesus Remembered . 1. Flight from Dogma 2. Flig...

We spent nearly all of Greek Galatians class today translating Galatians 2:16. Surely it is the most debated verse in the New Testament. A...

I'm not going to finish by Easter, sad to say. Looks like it's going to end up being a chapter a week from here on out. Today I'...

Today I have made my way through Chapter 5 of James Dunn's Jesus Remembered . The chapter is entitled "The Flight from History....

I forgot to mention in my review yesterday a quote I had either forgotten or never heard by Bishop Butler about John Wesley that Dunn gives ...

From now until Easter, I plan on Fridays to work through James D. G. Dunn's Jesus Remembered , the first of three planned volumes in a s...

And now the promised review of Dunn's chapter in Richard Hays' Festscrift, The Word Leaps the Gap: Essays on Scripture and Theology ...

I was a little disappointed when Dunn's Theology of Paul the Apostle came out, as I was with Stephen Westerholm's Preface to the St...

Same drill. At least 100 word response to something in the post, then 2 further comments in relation to something someone else has commente...

Chapter 12 is the concluding chapter of the book. Much of it is spent exploring how Judaism and Christianity today might relate to each oth...

OK, I changed my mind. I feel like I need to do a little more of James D. G. Dunn's, The Partings of the Ways . Chapter 11 is entitled...

Chapter 10 of James D. G. Dunn's, The Partings of the Ways is "One God, One Lord," and it asks whether or not Paul's writ...