Corpus-Paul

[Steve Black <sblack AT axionet.com>]

>  Dave Inglis wrote...
> if Paul's revelations were generated entirely
> in his own head, then you would expect them to be independent of the
> revelations generated in other people's heads.

Not necessarily. Common mythic backgrounds could operate as a good 
enough explanation for similarities - or if you were a Jungian - 
common arch-types - in any event, there are many models for what is 
"really" going on.

(As an aside - I don't think anything is purely generated by an 
autonomous self - in other words, NOTHING is ever generated "entirely 
" in someone's mind - we are all too connected in a mutually 
dependant set of linguistic systems for that to ever be the case.)

I have nothing against metaphysical speculation as such - but it 
seems more at home in a philosophical or theological discussion. The 
only people who would participate if such a set of metaphysical 
speculations were made central would be those who agree, and the 
conversation would become a confessional exercise. Also those who 
disagree would pipe in - and the the whole discussion would 
deteriorate into a debate along confessional lines. I think the more 
inclusive type of conversation currently enjoyed is far more 
interesting.

I guess its like I said in my first post - its all a matter of 
context. The scholarly world of the university is a different context 
from the scholarly world of the seminary, and both are different from 
the world of the church, which is different from the world of the 
"street".

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Steve Black
Vancouver School of Theology
Vancouver, BC
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Once in a while you can get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right...

-Robert Hunter From SCARLET BEGONIAS