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April 29th, 2012 by Joel

The Death of Facts is what has given rise to stuff like mythicism

Jim posted something regarding the death of facts. This sorta ties into the recent discussions on mythicism, actually. Here’s your sign…

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Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).

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  1. [...] studies, mythicists see myth as something diametrically opposed to THE TRUTH. Here’s your mythicist sign! Mythicists, like confessional Christian scholars, are driven by their presuppositions, their past [...]

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