Darrell L. Bock > Quotes

“underscore that”
― Darrell L. Bock, Acts

“When Stephen declares that he sees the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God, he is stoned for blasphemy because, in the view of these Jews, no one has the right to be at the side of God’s heavenly presence.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Acts

“The study noted that most students preferred the description they gave three years after the event rather than the initial account they gave immediately after the event. His point in citing the study was to say that memory becomes distorted over time.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“Others argue that Jesus’ presence and teaching were so powerful that they were well remembered by people who were used to passing on teaching orally. In many ways, this book is about that debate. It is a debate that rages in our culture as people speak about who Jesus was and what he taught.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“These images may be well motivated, but they still lack the personal contact with a living God that fuels and solidifies religious expression and life.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“This difference over memory parallels the way Jesus is remembered and discussed today.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“Now, if Mark is the first written gospel and Matthew and Luke didn’t use each other, we have good reason to believe that something like Q existed.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“In order to work, the Jesus tomb hypothesis has to claim that the disciples died for something they knew was a lie—in fact, something they themselves had fabricated. Further, it has to acknowledge that none of the disciples defected, even when faced with suffering and horrible deaths, including stoning and crucifix-ion. Is that likely?”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“When Paul saw the exalted Jesus and was converted, he had to have known the church’s teaching in order to understand the experience.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“When Jesus is made a social revolutionary or a prophet of wisdom, the relationship of creature to Creator is basically reduced to an ethical call that Jesus is said to give people so that they respond to”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“As New Testament professor Craig Blomberg observes, “What most distinguishes the work [Misquoting Jesus] are the spins Ehrman puts on some of the data at numerous junctures and his propensity for focusing on the most drastic of all the changes in the history of the text, leaving the uninitiated likely to think there are numerous additional examples of various phenomena he discusses when there are not” (2006).”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“In other words, where Borg and Crossan stress the critique of large political structures with the values of justice and nonviolence, Jesus’ teaching appears to address the local structures of relation-ships, neighbors, and manner of worship before God, while under-scoring love of one’s neighbor and calling for just treatment of others.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“it’s not what /Ehrman puts into the book that is so troubling but what he leaves out. And what he leaves out is any discussion of the tremendous resources at our disposal for reconstructing the text of the New Testament.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“First, this sayings gospel lacks a narrative substructure and therefore lacks verifiability. Second, Thomas is singled out as the only one who has reliable information about Jesus (see especially the prologue and saying 13).”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“In Jesusanity, it is Jesus’ teaching that matters and not his person or work beyond the example it sets.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“Eighth is yet another new phenomenon: the appeal of public-square crossover novels.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“In 1985 E. P. Sanders wrote Jesus and Judaism. In this work, Sanders, who has taught at Duke, Oxford, and Vanderbilt, argues that Jesus was a restoration prophet for Israel.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“antiquity has”
― Darrell L. Bock, Acts

“A divorce between these texts and Jesus means we see only a shadow of the real Jesus or even a distortion of him.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“A fifth and more cynical factor is a selective appeal to ancient evidence that highlights features in line with a modern ideological concern at the expense of being fair about the complexity of the ancient evidence.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“Tenth is the cultural desire to acknowledge religious diversity in such a way that peace can be maintained and the question of whether one religious tradition has more to offer than another is ignored.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“(1) a divorce between the Creator and the creature; (2) a divorce between God and the potential of his revelation to make us, as his creatures, accountable; (3) a divorce between Jesus and history or between Jesus and the witness of his followers within history; and (4) a divorce between Jesus’ entire message and the practice of the church.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“No accountability to God comes to mean no accountability to anyone other than those to whom I choose to be accountable.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“This is because, second, sometimes the winners won for reasons other than the mere”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“For Muslims, Jesus is seen as the messianic prophet they have claimed him to be. Islamic portraits of Jesus are said to parallel Q, James, and the Didache. Thus, we have a Jesus dynasty offered to a world in need of a less contentious religious history and engagement. Once again we have Jesusanity, not Christianity.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“I kept reverting to my basic question: how does it help us to say that the Bible is the inerrant word of God if in fact we don’t have the words that God inerrantly inspired, but only the words copied by the scribes—sometimes correctly and sometimes (many times!) incorrectly?”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“Approximately five thousand seven hundred Greek New Testament manuscripts are known to exist.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“All of our earliest sources (what historians are supposed to rely on the most) show that Jesus was seen as a unique, exalted figure—not the first in a line of rulers, but the Son of God.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“According to Borg and Crossan, the way to understand Jesus’ riding into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey is to appreciate the story of Jerusalem. Key to this story is the role of the city as the “center of the domination system”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

“had the responsibility of responding to Crossan that night. I noted that two very important points were missing from his discussion of the experiment at Emory.”
― Darrell L. Bock, Dethroning Jesus: Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ