Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Apr 5, 2005, at 12:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 4, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
This is one of the problems with most of the modern interpretations of the Gospels. Where Iasus was being metaphorical, he is taken literally; and where he was being literal, he is taken metaphorically.
I attended a seminar by Marcus Borg
(http://www.united.edu/portrait/borg.shtml) on Friday, a Jesus Seminar
fellow and prominent defender of the faith against Biblical literalism.
He described two forms of Christianity: an earlier "belief-based" paradigm
and an emerging "transformational paradigm." The interpretations you
rightly criticize above are the product of the former paradigm. The
latter may well be the antidote to it.
I sure hope there is an antidote. American Christianity is rapidly beginning to resemble Middle East Islam. Both in the sense of insistence on hardline radical fundamentalism steeped in narrow interpretations of marginally-relevant texts; and in the sense of trying to turn our government into a theocracy.
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'marginally-relevant texts'? An example please; So far I've only seen various perversions of the Bible (Unless you count Mel Gibson using the ravings of a delirious German nun in his /Passion/.).
~Maru
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