{"id":1357,"date":"2021-01-16T09:33:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T14:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2020-04-15T16:20:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:20:44","slug":"idle-fancy-and-historical-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/?p=1357","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Idle fancy and historical imagination&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gospel Scholar Vincent Taylor once wrote, &#8220;It goes without saying that in any recreation of the past much has to be supplied by the imagination; but there is all the difference in the world between idle fancy and the historical imagination controlled by facts which have been patiently investigated.&#8221;+<br>168<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SpendaYearwithJesus story is the result of ten years of patient investigation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the details of the Gospel accounts are to be accounted for on first-century terms (and in light of pre-Pentecost realities), then economic, geographical, and relational implications may be played out in narrative form. SpendaYearwithJesus is exactly this sort of play&#8211;one which emerges out of the historical realities of the available details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">+ Vincent Tayler, <em>The Formation of the Gospel\u00a0Tradition<\/em> (London: MacMillan, 1933), 168.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gospel Scholar Vincent Taylor once wrote, &#8220;It goes without saying that in any recreation of the past much has to be supplied by the imagination; but there is all the difference in the world between idle fancy and the historical imagination controlled by facts which have been patiently investigated.&#8221;+168 The SpendaYearwithJesus story is the result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}