A new spin on an old tendency ...

In his intro Christology book, Loewe writes that some Jesuit,

"likened the liberal quest for the historical Jesus to a person looking down a deep, dark well. What would someone see at the bottom of a well? ... a blurry image of themselves ... the historical figure of Jesus constructed by liberals like Harnack looks suspiciously like the figure of a nineteenth-century liberal German professor of theology ..."

In "'For God so loved Himself?' Is God a Narcissist?", Ben Witherington takes issue with the wildly popular Evangelical & Reformed view of God.

Dr. Witherington concludes thus,

"I suppose we should not be surprised that in a culture and age of narcissism, we would recreate God in our own self-centered image, but it is surprising when we find orthodox Christians, and even careful scholars doing this."

You can find rebuttals online. The Rev. Dr. John Piper has one.