A conversation about the Resurrection Controversy

with Peter Carnley, Kenneth Woodward and J. Philip Wogaman
in Religion, Lifestyle
on Monday, April 1, 1996 * * * * *

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A discussion with Reverend J. Philip Wogaman, President Clinton's pastor, Dr. Peter Carnley, Anglican Archbishop of Perth, and Kenneth Woodward, religious editor of "Newsweek" magazine, about the controversy within Christianity about the historical accuracy of the Gospels' representation of Christ's resurrection.

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Easter approaches
Christians
Dr. Peter Carnley
Kenneth Woodward
The Resurrection
Jesus Christ

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    1. ron thomas  02/26/2008 02:26 AM Report

      Due to the poor sound quality of this interview, it was difficult to understand the Australian pastor. To have his comments as well as Wogaman as a Reverend didn't add much to my understanding of what Woodward was trying to say in his article.

      All I got out of the interview, was Wogaman's dismissive attitude about the historical, ie factual, search for Jesus. This didn't help to have the Reverend wanting to pour water on the discussion from the outset. So his comments were to me like he was ridiculing the discussion with a sort of a "this is a useless enterprise to study the historical Jesus" attitude. He just deflected any chance of a real discussion and shouldn't have been asked his opinion as it was so dismissive from the start.

      Carnley was just too hard to understand with the accent and the poor quality of sound. Other interviews are much better in that regard, so I know it isn't my computer.

      Aside from this sound issue, what did come through to me was that Carnley carried on like any other cleric, saying it is all about Faith and not about facts. This is a typical retreat and again added nothing to the discussion at hand.

      Woodward and Rose were the only two who made sense to me as those really struggling to get a handle on this "fellow" named Jesus. Unfortunately, Rose gave up, it seems to me, any further exploration of the subject by simply reducing the matter to faith, which in these secular discussions is the last retreat of the clergy everywhere. When they can't defend a view of historical evidence, they eventually retreat to the Faith defense, which we all know is them saying something like, oh Hell, just believe period!

      As a result of the above, this interview went nowhere for me, sadly, as it started so promising in it's title.