From: Howard J. Van Till (hvantill@chartermi.net)
Date: Fri Aug 15 2003 - 16:24:06 EDT
>From: "Dr. Blake Nelson" <bnelson301@yahoo.com>
> --- "Howard J. Van Till" <hvantill@chartermi.net> wrote:
>
>> Or, (b) above - which, if it is to done responsibly,
>> will not be left to the
>> idiosyncrasies of isolated individual practitioners
>> but will be developed in
>> a community of truth-seeking persons who have goals
>> other than the
>> satisfaction of personal whims.
>
> Isn't that what religious traditions do?
Yes, that gets away from the problem of individual idiosyncrasies to which
George appealed in his initial caricature of (b),
> Or are those, or other christian truth seeking
> communities deficient for relying, at least in part,
> on the authority of scripture?
As I have said on numerous occasions, I do think that some portions of the
Christian community have a problem with biblicism bordering on bibliolatry.
If you or your portion of that community do not have that problem, you are
free to ignore my comments on this topic.
Howard Van Till
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