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| | National Review: Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Chri... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | The Nicolaitans carried it to the extreme reading we find here, but they, like their principal echo, Johann Agricola in the sixteenth century, put it better than this Smile Button iconography cobbled together with remnants of nineteenth-century liberal Christology. |
 | | While doctrines are only "metaphorical statements" (a statement caricaturing the complex business of what is called analogia entis), certain theologians are reliable: principally John Shelby Spong, who calls Bawer "one of this nation's premier religious commentators," and Hans Kung ("perhaps the most distinguished theologian of our time"). |
 | | On the down side, St. Augustine and other early Fathers gave us at least 1,046 doctrines, of which "only nine concern love." It is also outrageous, I suppose, that not a single clause of the U.S. Constitution concerns oxygen. |
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