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I am merely attempting to explain why and how I continue to find traditional Christian doctrines and confessions “true,” why I’m willing to confess the creeds, even though I am a critical scholar who knows much of the Bible is not “true” when taken as history or science. This is not an apology but an attempt at explanation and illustration.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
No ancient artist would have thought to honour a Caesar by representing him as Caravaggio represented Peter: tortured, humiliated, stripped almost bare. And yet, in the city of the Caesars, it was a man broken to such a fate who was honoured as the keeper of ‘the keys of the kingdom of heaven’.21 The last had indeed become first. The relationship
... See moreTom Holland • Dominion
The Bible’s claim to truth is not only far more urgent than Homer’s, it is tyrannical—it excludes all other claims.
Willard R. Trask • Mimesis
But when Christian culture supplanted the Greeks, the Christians destroyed most of the comedies. Stories of tragedy reinforced the Christian viewpoint so the church preserved Oedipus the King and Medea and Prometheus Bound and eradicated all that did not celebrate the church’s ideals of suffering and martyrdom.
Chuck Palahniuk • Adjustment Day
The Jewish Revolt of 66 AD effectively ended the Jerusalem church of James, while the Christianity of Paul, who was probably dead or dying in a cell in Rome at the time, would continue to grow.
Sean Martin • The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages
