> Well, there is Protestantism and there is Protestantism. By its very
> contrarian nature, it, like Trotskyism, leads to proliferation of sects,
> especially loony ones. The Lutherans, at least Lutheran intellectuals, are
> miles above the Baptists or, urgh, Jehovah's Witnesses or Evangelicals. I
> mean, ARE there any Mormon or Baptist or JW or Evangelical intellectuals?
>
Harvey Cox is a Baptist Minister
>
> Did Spinoza actually know very much about the history of religious
> philosophy (that is, all of medieval European and Arabic philosophy) outside
> of the rabbinical tradition? Making religion into philosophy wasn't really
> what they were trying to do; they took religion as a datum and incorporated
> it into their thought, not substitute one for the other.
>
> --- On Wed, 9/16/09, wrobert at uci.edu <wrobert at uci.edu> wrote:
>
> > From: wrobert at uci.edu <wrobert at uci.edu>
> > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Signs of the Times
> > To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> > Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 3:39 PM
> > As to Catholicism, there was a lot of
> > good stuff going on during the 60's
> > and 70's, but that's been been taken care of. No more
> > Vatican II
> > evidently. As to protestantism, there is certainly an
> > impressive
> > intellectual tradition in its origins, but at this point,
> > the average
> > protestant where I'm from knows very little about the Bible
> > (which is
> > kinda depressing given the origins of protestantism)
> > Although personally,
> > I agree with Spinoza that the core kernel of Christianity
> > is not terribly
> > complicated at all, and that the general attempt to make
> > religion into
> > philosophy is an act of mystification. robert wood
> >
>
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