Thursday, October 10, 2013

Bultmann, Jens Schröter, and Facebook - Le Donne

It was not long ago that I was a Facebook persecutor.  Oh, wretched man that I am!  I thought that Facebook was for people who were too lazy, afraid, or ashamed to live their lives in the real world.  Now I know that I was quite right, but Facebook can - at rare moments - be quite helpful.

Consider this thread initiated by Chris Tilling today:

I have heard multiple critiques recently that NT applications of Social Memory do not do much more than echo Form Critical premises.  Paul Foster's recent essay in JSHJ makes this claim.  Kudos to Chris Tilling for reaching out and asking the question before he came to any definitive conclusions.  Scholarship is best when it is proactively conversant.  I have been quite surprised at how much scholarship is happening via social media.  I have seen the light.

-anthony
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 10, 2013 at 1:25 PM

    Yes. FB, for all its faults, allows the kind of conversation that you'd have in a departmental tea room, whereas blogs are more formal.

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  2. Anthony Le DonneOctober 10, 2013 at 1:40 PM

    Very good analogy Judy. Thanks.

    -anthony

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  3. Chris TillingOctober 10, 2013 at 3:06 PM

    Yes, thanks for your help earlier on, truly I give thanks for people like you on Facebook at time like this!

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