Comments on: Christian Humanism

By: Neffs

Neffs — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:50:07 +0000

I just think it’s not an accident if the movie ‘Fight Club’ is actually popular among those folks. People who are into a self-denigrating religious experience have things in common with people who are into BDSM, training for triathlons, and self-mutilation. Not that I’m judging any of them. I think there are parallels, is all.

By: David M. Manes

David M. Manes — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:50:54 +0000

Haha, that guy looks hilarious. Hilarious in a very obnoxious way.

I think the masturbation joke is funny, and it is amusing that he curses, but the whole Calvinism/Evangelical thing doesn’t do it for me.

By: Irritable

Irritable — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:46:59 +0000

“One member complained on an online message board and instantly found his membership privileges suspended. ‘They are sinning through questioning,’ Driscoll preached.”

‘Nuff said.

By: Neffs

Neffs — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:30:09 +0000

Okay one more link and then I’ll leave you be. What do you make of this guy? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/magazine/11punk-t.html

By: Irritable

Irritable — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:37:56 +0000

I recently read Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza's Jesus: Miriam's Child, Sophia's Prophet: Critical Issues in Feminist Christology, which was (for me) a very helpful introduction.

By: Neffs

Neffs — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:19:13 +0000

There’s ‘The Feminine Face of God’ by Sherry Ruth Anderson and I also really enjoy Karen Armstrong, but her stuff is more holistic than specific to feminist criticism.

By: David M. Manes

David M. Manes — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:43:43 +0000

Thanks!

By: Stephanie E.

Stephanie E. — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:24:57 +0000

DMM – If you’re interested, Caroline Walker Bynam is a prominent medieval historian who’s done a lot of work on feminine images of God.

By: David M. Manes

David M. Manes — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:21:51 +0000

Karen, thanks for your comment. I agree with a lot of your sentiments – that Christianity can provide a lot of good things despite its historical misuse, that any faith requires an active decision, and that the infinite is difficult to conceptualize.

But I think you also make some unwarranted leaps, starting with your first sentence that “the Bible is the gift from a benevolent and omniscient God…” I really don’t think the Bible came from God at all; in fact, it is quite clear that it came from humans. Deeply flawed and often misguided humans at that.

By: Seven Reasons Barack Obama Is Not a Christian « globalizati

Seven Reasons Barack Obama Is Not a Christian « globalizati — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:47:07 +0000

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