Robert W. Funk
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Robert W. Funk
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Robert Walter Funk was an American biblical scholar, founder of the Jesus Seminar and the nonprofit Westar Institute in Santa Rosa, California. Funk sought to promote research and education on what he called biblical literacy. His approach to hermeneutics was historical-critical, with a strongly skeptical view of orthodox Christian belief, particularly concerning the historical Jesus. He and his associates described Jesus' parables as containing shocking messages that contradicted established re
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American theologian and Biblical scholar (1926–2005)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Funk
date created:
2005-09-07T10:19:20Z
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2024-08-27T04:16:57Z
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