Anti-Heritage: Glenn Hinson

                                                                                                                       Vol. VII, No. 8, October 1994

The following selection is quoted from E. Glenn Hinson, Jesus Christ (Consortium Books, 1977, by McGrath Publishing Co.) pp 56-57. Dr. Hinson was a professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; he now teaches at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond. Bold print has been added for emphasis.

"All [Gospel] sources, however objective they claim to be, have biases. They reflect the slanted viewpoints of their authors. At the same time most possess, in varying degrees, some element of fact. The fact that none of these is absolutely factual, however, does not take away all of their value. What it takes away is the dogmatic certainty with which historians in the past sometimes operated. ... In the case of the gospels one can safely conclude that a kernel of historical fact underlies the early Church's handling of the material."