N.T. Wright on Genesis 1-3
The venerable Bishop properly shows how “Creation battles” in the USA are really hooked into larger social and political disputes. Sublime communication.
Your Correspondent, A mythical man
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Wright’s recasting of the meaning of the word myth is very interesting right now because of the specious way that creationism v evolution gets cast in the popular imagination. I know I sound like a broken record by Casanova’s US chapter in Public Religions…is really strong on this. He tends to think of the development of certain forms of US Protestantism as a response to the ’scientification’ of the world. The scientists have ‘their story’ so we need ‘ous’ sort of thing.
The fusion with the political emerges only when the Catholic / Protestant republic is threatened by larger numbers of (other faith) migrants coming from places other than Europe and Latin America in the early part of the 20th century.
Your commenter: really a Weberian but too liberal to admit it.