one question: didn't you once say that your very religious students taking your theology class -- evangelicals, fundamentalists -- often didn't know scripture especially well. that maybe they could find the passage or quote it, but they hadn't really thought about it. you once wrote some interesting remarks here about that.
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At 10:59 PM 3/24/2010, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
>btw - i wasn't dissing the thread, here. just for the record. but there's no
>way i can catch up now. so i'll probably be waiting for the next go-round.
>which is sure to happen sooner or later. :)
>
>On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > yeah, it's true, we've had the discussion before. sometimes i'm tired of
> > it, and sometimes it feels fresher than that.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Jeffrey, we've had the same thread 100 times before. You're not missing
> >> anything.
> >>
> >> Although that inspired vs. actual distinction would go right over the
> >> average New Atheist's head.
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----
> >> From: Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>
> >> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> >> Sent: Wed, March 24, 2010 11:53:00 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Americans and the bible
> >>
> >> i can't believe i've been missing the other thread altogether, and i have
> >> no
> >> time at the moment to catch up on it in a way to be really helpful, but it
> >> really is worth looking at all the data in this link, i think, because you
> >> see the split between protestants and catholics on the "actual word of
> >> god"
> >> question, and very much the same split between born-again and
> >> not-born-again
> >> protestants. to say that the bible is the actual word of god is a vastly
> >> different thing than to consider it "inspired," which allows much more
> >> room
> >> for interpretation. even the term "inspired" can be construed in a variety
> >> of ways, some more exclusivist, but most more inclusivist and pluralist,
> >> and
> >> even with something like a modern historical orientation.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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