Posted: Jul 23, 2013 1:42 pm
Mus Ponticus wrote:That was a fun read. I was hoping that James would engage you on the "brother of the lord"-issue. Hasn't happened yetspin wrote:Hell, Neil, I've been tardy here. I've been engaged in trying to pin McGrath down in the comments section of the Vridar post on his blog. I'm a b-a-a-a-d boy.
And I doubt he will. He was caught out in his "the brothers in christ" concoction. He usually doesn't commit himself substantively, preferring to hide behind the consensus of scholars. This consensus of scholars reminds me of the consensus regarding electro-shock therapy. There are some consensuses that one should never trust. (But if you have enough interest, you learn as much as you can in order to develop a critic understanding of the subject, so you are less reliant on a consensus.)