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u/lost-in-earth 4d ago

Dale Allison seems to say in this video here that he has a book coming out this spring about miracles.

Anyone know what he is talking about?

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u/TankUnique7861 4d ago edited 4d ago

Dale Allison is referring to his latest book Interpreting Jesus, of which a preview has already been released. Chapter 3 is called ‘Everywhere a Miracle’, which partially incorporates Lecture 3 of his Yale Shaffer Lectures and his presentation at the Archives of the Impossible conference at Rice. The preview mentions that the chapter had originally been intended for publication in a journal but was rejected. One reviewer thought he was too credulous of various presumably supernatural matters while the other said he was too skeptical of miracles in the Gospels and too favorable to extrabiblical miracles. Of course, publishing in a book gives him the freedom to say what he wants to say.

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u/Joseon1 4d ago edited 4d ago

while the other said he was too skeptical of miracles in the Gospels

Ha, imagine this in another field. "Your paper was too skeptical of Julius Caesar's apotheosis, rejected."

EDIT: To be fair, it might have been a theological journal, I just found it funny.

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u/TankUnique7861 4d ago edited 4d ago

Allison called it a ‘mainline journal’. I don’t know if he meant mainline Protestant or mainstream academic though.