Comments on: Quotation of the Week http://erika.haub.net/quotation-of-the-week-10/09/ Erika Carney Haub's musings on life and God from South Central, L.A. Mon, 21 May 2012 18:43:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Sam L. Carr http://erika.haub.net/quotation-of-the-week-10/09/comment-page-1/#comment-177 Sam L. Carr Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:36:35 +0000 http://erika.haub.net/quotation-of-the-week-10/09/#comment-177 I am not bold enough to argue with any real theologians but I do have a suggestion and this is that the gospel has been emptied of its content by both the reformers, the liberals who followed them and the evangelicals of recent years. I say this for the simple reason that the content of the proclamation of the early church/the apostles absolutely had to be Jesus. I do mean the 'historical' Jesus. Deriving our definition of the gospel from the epistles is methodologically silly but that is precisely what we have been doing for the last several hundred years. I am not bold enough to argue with any real theologians but I do have a suggestion and this is that the gospel has been emptied of its content by both the reformers, the liberals who followed them and the evangelicals of recent years.

I say this for the simple reason that the content of the proclamation of the early church/the apostles absolutely had to be Jesus. I do mean the ‘historical’ Jesus.

Deriving our definition of the gospel from the epistles is methodologically silly but that is precisely what we have been doing for the last several hundred years.

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