18 Aug '06 22:41>
Originally posted by NemesioI meant with respect to her opinion on the Gnostic works being as/more important than the synoptic gospels. Next time ask for clarification *before* ridiculing. She does not deny that the synoptics are dated earlier, but she wishes to make the Gnostic gospels as important anyway because the Gnostics put emphasis on personal experience, i.e. "the secret knowledge that only *we* know".
LOL! This forum is full of priceless statements, but yours is the
quintessential definition of psychological projection.
She is a [b]historian who, in no small part, covers the evolution of how
the canon came to be the accepted one and, as a consequence, how
other texts came to be regarded as heretical.
She places almost no emphasis on 'subjec ...[text shortened]... se,
as a historian, she lets the data inform her, not her opinion shape the
data.
Nemesio[/b]