Reblogged from Larry Hurtado's Blog:

I learned only yesterday that Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini had died, and (the  reason it was picked up by UK news outlets) had given a death-bed interview in which he had expressed strong views on how the Roman Catholic Church (and European churches more generally) needed to be renewed and reformed.  I know of Martini in another capacity, however, as a NT scholar and particularly for his contributions to NT textual criticism.  

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Larry Hurtado about Carlo Maria Martini (the scholar), who died recently.