The Cyclopes of Christ. Contemporary Perceptions and Recontextualizations on Christianity

Grozea, Lucian

doi:10.2478/saec-2020-0020

Abstract

This study represents the first part of a research that brings into debate the works about the Christian religion, founder, cult, followers, of some contemporary authors in great editorial vogue, Catherine Nixey, Gabriel Liiceanu and Bart Ehrman. Personal agnosticism and subjective disavowal constitute the new hermeneutic grid, in Postmodernism, although the same tendencies are found in the exegesis of the Enlightenment, (neo) Marxism or theological Liberalism. The recontextualization and deliberate omission of data that are themselves part of the process of historical evidence seem to be the new trend of academic interpretation under the auspices of a single principle of sola ratio.

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