{"id":4060,"date":"2007-12-02T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/a-former-colleague-jesus-and-lunacy\/"},"modified":"2007-12-02T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T23:11:00","slug":"a-former-colleague-jesus-and-lunacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/a-former-colleague-jesus-and-lunacy.html","title":{"rendered":"A Former Colleague, Jesus and Lunacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I have to share one more item today, since there may be colleagues of mine here at Butler who will find this interesting (as may others). John Beversluis, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy who retired from teaching at Butler University not long after I started teaching here, wrote a book on C. S. Lewis, from which <a href=\"http:\/\/debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/john-beversluis-on-whether-jesus-was.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a short excerpt has been posted on the Debunking Christianity blog<\/a> as a discussion-starter. I will have to read his book sometime in the not too distant future, since from the short excerpt I\u2019m not particularly impressed, but that may have more to do with the lack of context than anything else.<\/p>\n<p>I miss John\u2019s entertaining e-mails, in which he would do things like express agonized dismay over the cancellation of department meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Today I just started reading <em>The Year Of Living Biblically<\/em>, which is highly entertaining, as I hoped it would be. I\u2019ll have more to say about that at some point soon as well.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DebunkingChristianity\/~3\/194617790\/preface-to-2nd-edition-of-john.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Debunking Christianity has since offered a follow-up post<\/a> with the preface to the second edition of Beversluis\u2019 book).<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-9093741387226639602?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to share one more item today, since there may be colleagues of mine here at Butler who will find this interesting (as may others). 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