[lbo-talk] a nation of thumpers

[Mark DeLucas]

Mainstream academic theology is mostly pantheist, or panentheist, and has
been for some time.  Theistic religious philosophers still defend belief in
an actual God entity, however.

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


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> On Jul 9, 2011, at 11:33 AM, Dissenting Wren wrote:
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> > Holden Village isn't a nest of thumpers.  The mainstream Protestant
> denominations stopped being Biblical literalists a long time ago.
>
> I've been told by an alum of one that no one in any of the mainline schools
> of theology really believes in God in any literal sense, and mostly take the
> bible and such to be metaphors.
>
> Doug
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