The members of the Jesus Seminar are progressive theologians, but that doesn't mean that all progressive theologians agree with the Jesus Seminar people. There is even disagreement between people involved in the Jesus Seminar. For example, Walter Wink says (for the rest of the article see http://www.westarinstitute.org/Periodicals/4R_Articles/Wink_bio/wink_bio.htm l) "I participate with an uneasy conscience in the Jesus Seminar discussions about a database for the Jesus traditions. The discussions are so exciting and informative, the participants so brilliant and fun to be with, that I find it easy to set aside my objections to the kitschy (though decision-forcing) business of voting our preferences with beads. My greatest hesitation about the Jesus Seminar is the idea that it is possible to build, from the bottom up, a perspective-free, objective database. Such a neutral, "pictureless" standpoint is impossible. Every analysis is value-laden. We cannot help projecting onto the texts our own unconscious needs and desires for transformation or confirmation, to say nothing of our socio-political location and biases."
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