open source theology

Bart Ehrman has written another book.  It’s called, Jesus Interrupted.  You can read a short article about Ehrman and the new book, an excerpt of the book, and listen to the NPR story here.  I have not read the book; let me be clear about that.  But what I talk about in this essay has nothing to do with the content of the book.  Rather, I am interested in a working presumption that makes Ehrman’s argument possible in the first instance.  The presumption is that the words that compose the Bible are more or less accurate representations of what really happened, which makes “contradictions” and differences in the gospels to be particularly problematic.