Re: Biblical Interpretation Reconsidered

Robert Schneider wrote:
>
> I remember the time years ago that my colleague at Berea College Jim
> Holloway attended a faculty committee meeting with a new faculty member in
> attendance. Now, Jim was an ordained Southern Baptist minister who taught
> courses in religion, specializing in the letters of Paul. Somewhat of a
> curmudgeon, this Georgian was also a courageous white spokesman for racial
> integration in the South long before the sixties. Anyhow, the new member
> started the meeting by saying that he thought "we ought to go around the
> table and everyone tell how he or she feels about Jesus." That got Jim's
> dander up, and he replied, "How I feel about Jesus is between me and Jesus.
> This is a committee meeting, not a church meeting."
>
> My point is that there is an appropriate place for soliciting personal
> testimonies of faith (as opposed to their being volunteered), but I do not
> think this science/religion discussion list is one of them.
>
> Bob Schneider
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John W Burgeson" <jwburgeson@juno.com>
> To: <gmurphy@raex.com>
> Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 5:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Biblical Interpretation Reconsidered
>
> > >>Howard's argument may be formally about the argument itself, not about
> > the
> > person of Christ. But what is his view of the person of Christ?>>
> >
> > You will have to ask Howard. That is a whole nother ballgame.

        The incident you cite involved a person introducing the question of about Jesus
& expecting other to respond. That is very different from a situation in which a person
who has chosen to participate in a public discussion about Jesus & then being asked to
clarify his views about Jesus. This is not a church meeting but it is a
science-religion list in which most of the participants are Christians and where
christology is an important of the religion part of science-religion discussions.

                                                        Shalom,
                                                        George

George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Sat Dec 20 22:15:02 2003