Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: henning@acsu.buffalo.edu (Karl airspace Henning) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Literalist activists Message-ID: Date: 2 Apr 91 08:26:24 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: SUNY Buffalo Lines: 21 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu I thank the moderator for providing yet more information regarding the Jesus Seminar, by which recent conclave I find myself increasingly fascinated. I should mention that I didn't realize that the findings of this Seminar had been published in book form; and, since my initial posting included queries about a new book by Bishop Spong, I should pint out too that the two books are utterly separate issues/entities. The moderator discussed "a gulf between between ordinary Christians and Christian scholarship", and thereby hangs a tale. I admire men with the determination and strength of purpose to try to establish a dialogue between xian scholarship and the ordinary xian ... but I must confess that I see it as a nearly Sisyphian task. kph -- Doris: But without God, the universe is meaningless. Life is meaningless. We're meaningless. (/Deadly pause/) I have a sudden and overpowering urge to get laid. -- Woody Allen, "God (A Play)"