----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
> If I asked a
> Christian what it meant to be a Christian, I don't think there'd be
> much ambiguity about the answer, unless my interlocutor was a
> graduate of Pacific Theological.
>
You CAN'T be serious. Anybody trying to give a definition that encompassed everyone from traditionalist Catholics through Coptics to the UCC would be reduced to talking about "having a relationship with the Jesus experience" or something.
lp