Talk:Brant J. Pitre

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In a nutshell[edit]

In the divinity school he had a crisis of faith (which is rather the rule than the exception). After he recovered from such crisis, he decided that the dogmas of the Catholic Church are literally true, not only theologically, but also historically.

Just read https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/the-case-for-jesus-9780770435486 and you will see he strongly deviates from mainstream Bible scholarship. He is not a revolutionary of this academic field, he is a reactionary.

All of Pitre's books, however, are published by Image Books, essentially an "in house" Catholic press, by Catholics for Catholics, which wouldn't rate as a source for scholarly information, except in rare instances.
— qumrun60, Reddit

"So, in this video, Dr. Brant Pitre goes back and provides a context for what the Kingdom of God looks like in Daniel and how Daniel predicted the precise time of the coming of this Divine Messiah which is precisely the time the Jesus steps on to the scene." [1]. That is an often-repeated apologetic argument, but cuts no ice in the mainstream academia.

This source (which is not unfriendly to Pitre) calls one of his major works "apologetics". For those who are unacquainted with such terms, "apologetics" means it isn't WP:SCHOLARSHIP. The source actually loves his book, but in a odd way it is backstabbing him in respect to the mainstream academia. tgeorgescu (talk) 00:33, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]