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Article: A MESSAGE FROM CARAVAGGIO.(experts discuss revelation)
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- June 20, 1997
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A Symposium on Revelation
As the controversy surrounding the Jesus Seminar suggests, the historical-critical methods employed by modern biblical scholars have raised profound questions about the nature of revelation. Is Scripture a human product, or divine--or is this either/or altogether too simple? What sense can we make of revelation given all the human and historical circumstances we now know went into Scripture's composition? We need a new--or renewed--understanding of revelation's power and truth.
Toward this end, we have asked a handful of contributors to reflect on the idea of revelation, and to do so by reference to Caravaggio's great painting, ...