{"id":7936,"date":"2012-06-01T16:01:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T20:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=7936"},"modified":"2012-06-01T16:01:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T20:01:42","slug":"the-jesus-process-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/06\/the-jesus-process-begins.html","title":{"rendered":"The Jesus Process Begins"},"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><a href=\"http:\/\/rjosephhoffmann.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/22\/4915\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A while back, Joseph Hoffmann announced a new project with the title \u201cThe Jesus Process.\u201d It has now produced its first few offerings, in the form of the following online essays<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rjosephhoffmann.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/22\/the-jesus-process-maurice-casey\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Maurice Casey, \u201cMythicism: A Story of Bias, Incompetence and Falsehood\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rjosephhoffmann.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/22\/the-jesus-process-stephanie-louise-fisher\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stephanie Louise Fisher, \u201cAn Exhibition of Incompetence: Trickery, Dickery, Bayes\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rjosephhoffmann.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/22\/the-jesus-process-a-consultation-on-the-historical-jesus\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">R. Joseph Hoffmann, \u201cControversy, Mythicism, and the Historical Jesus\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rjosephhoffmann.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/29\/proving-what\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">See also Hoffmann\u2019s very recent blog post on the use of Bayes\u2019 Theorem by Richard Carrier and other mythicists<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/29\/a-guest-post-on-the-proper-understanding-of-albert-schweitzer\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Steph Fisher\u2019s guest post on Jim West\u2019s blog about the interpretation of Albert Schweitzer<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/unsettledchristianity.com\/2012\/05\/stephanie-fisher-responds-to-neil-godfrey\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+unsettledchristianityblog+%28Unsettled+Christianity%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Joel Watts also interacted with Neil Godfrey and Steph Fisher\u2019s response to him<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/vridar.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/01\/my-work-has-been-serf-reviewed\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tim Widdowfield expressed appreciation to Steph Fisher for her responses to two of his blog posts at Vridar<\/a>, coining the cute term \u201cserf review\u201d since he is not a peer!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, Joseph Hoffmann announced a new project with the title \u201cThe Jesus Process.\u201d It has now produced its first few offerings, in the form of the following online essays: Maurice Casey, \u201cMythicism: A Story of Bias, Incompetence and Falsehood\u201d Stephanie Louise Fisher, \u201cAn Exhibition of Incompetence: Trickery, Dickery, Bayes\u201d R. 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