Comments on: The Need for my Series on Interpreting the Bible http://henrysthreads.com/2009/01/the-need-for-my-series-on-interpreting-the-bible/ Thoughts on Religion in the World from a passionate, moderate, liberal charismatic Christian Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:11:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Henry Neufeld http://henrysthreads.com/2009/01/the-need-for-my-series-on-interpreting-the-bible/comment-page-1/#comment-128565 Henry Neufeld Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:44:26 +0000 http://www.energionpubs.com/wordpress/?p=1913#comment-128565 Just so. Apologetics is often a screwed up business, and I say that as someone who publishes (as you know) a couple of books on the topic. I would make a small exception for someone who concedes they are responding to a certain group, i.e. an apologist responding specifically to the "new atheists" or an atheist attacking specifically "fundamentalist Christianity" or "evangelical Christianity" or even (horrors!) "liberal Christianity! But there is remarkably little of that going on, at least that I have discovered. Not none, but too little. Just so. Apologetics is often a screwed up business, and I say that as someone who publishes (as you know) a couple of books on the topic. I would make a small exception for someone who concedes they are responding to a certain group, i.e. an apologist responding specifically to the “new atheists” or an atheist attacking specifically “fundamentalist Christianity” or “evangelical Christianity” or even (horrors!) “liberal Christianity!

But there is remarkably little of that going on, at least that I have discovered. Not none, but too little.

]]> By: Henry Neufeld http://henrysthreads.com/2009/01/the-need-for-my-series-on-interpreting-the-bible/comment-page-1/#comment-128564 Henry Neufeld Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:41:40 +0000 http://www.energionpubs.com/wordpress/?p=1913#comment-128564 ... and not even a relevant post! I have fixed the link, which should have gone <a href="http://heartontheleft.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/the-dilemma-of-science-and-faith/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. … and not even a relevant post! I have fixed the link, which should have gone here.

]]> By: Martin LaBar http://henrysthreads.com/2009/01/the-need-for-my-series-on-interpreting-the-bible/comment-page-1/#comment-128563 Martin LaBar Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:52:08 +0000 http://www.energionpubs.com/wordpress/?p=1913#comment-128563 The link which is supposed to go to Tony Mitchell actually leads to one of your own posts. The link which is supposed to go to Tony Mitchell actually leads to one of your own posts.

]]> By: Christopher Smith http://henrysthreads.com/2009/01/the-need-for-my-series-on-interpreting-the-bible/comment-page-1/#comment-128562 Christopher Smith Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:51:43 +0000 http://www.energionpubs.com/wordpress/?p=1913#comment-128562 The same principle could be applied in reverse to apologetic books. Rather than arguing atheism is a bankrupt paradigm on the basis of an examination of the views of uneducated atheists at the popular level, I think that Christian apologists have a responsibility to engage secularism at its strongest: to compare our best to their best, so to speak. The same principle could be applied in reverse to apologetic books. Rather than arguing atheism is a bankrupt paradigm on the basis of an examination of the views of uneducated atheists at the popular level, I think that Christian apologists have a responsibility to engage secularism at its strongest: to compare our best to their best, so to speak.

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