The venerable Bishop properly shows how “Creation battles” in the USA are really hooked into larger social and political disputes. Sublime communication.
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Now Reading
Planned books:
- The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative by Christopher J. H. Wright
- Faiths in Conflict: Christian Integrity in a Multicultural World by Vinoth Ramachandra
- The Recovery of Mission: Beyond the Pluralist Paradigm by Vinoth Ramachandra
- Shadow of the Antichrist, The: Nietzsche’s Critique of Christianity by Stephen Williams
- The Nietzsche Reader (Blackwell Readers) by Unknown
Current books:
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Mark as Story Second Edition by David Rhoads
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
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The Time Machine (Penguin Classics) by H.G. Wells
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Virtue Reborn by Tom Wright
Recent books:
- Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters by Timothy Keller
- Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
- Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life by Steve Martin
- Jesus and Community by Gerhard Lohfink
- Dreamsfrom My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack(Author) ; Obama, Barack(Read by) Obama
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.