{"id":1987,"date":"2006-05-18T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T11:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/jesus-out-of-focus.html"},"modified":"2006-05-18T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T11:30:09","slug":"jesus-out-of-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/jesus-out-of-focus.html","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Out of Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Excellent piece at Christianity Today – by Gary Burge of Wheaton.<\/a><\/p>\n

He brings together all the points perculating in our culture…DVC…Bart Ehrman…lost Christianities….save this one.<\/p>\n

I need to run out and do stuff, but do read it – I’ll be back later to pull out some important points – the good news in it is that Darrell Bock has a new book coming out later this summer:<\/p>\n

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In August, he is releasing The Missing Gospels: Unearthing the Truth Behind Alternative Christianities<\/span>. The echo to Ehrman’s work is obvious: Bock intends to challenge the scholarly trend that now gives voice to the apocryphal Gospels, and to question the theory of unfairly repressed "lost Christianities."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excellent piece at Christianity Today – by Gary Burge of Wheaton. He brings together all the points perculating in our culture…DVC…Bart Ehrman…lost Christianities….save this one. I need to run out and do stuff, but do read it – I’ll be back later to pull out some important points – the good news in it is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nJesus Out of Focus - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/jesus-out-of-focus.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jesus Out of Focus - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Excellent piece at Christianity Today – by Gary Burge of Wheaton. 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