In case you haven’t caught wind of this yet, you’ll need to see the conversation that is beginning between Shane Raynor at Wesley Blog and Jeremy Smith at Hacking Christianity. I tend to agree more with Shane on this issue.
One of the best books I read during seminary was by Helmut Thielicke, A Little Excercise for Young Theologians. In fact, this short book should probably be required reading for incoming pastors, as it touches on this very issue in some pretty insightful ways.
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Ah, Matt…How can you agree with someone who started a discussion that I wasn’t even aware was being discussed?
Here’s my response to Shane’s post here.
– http://blog.hackingchristianity.net/2009/02/intellectual-elitism-or-responsibility.html
Hope you will come down from the peanut gallery and join the conversation!
Hey, I did say the conversation was just beginning, and I’m glad that’s the case. I think it’s an important discussion.
After reading your response, I definitely appreciate you stepping back a bit from the certainty that Shane pointed out.
More than anything I suppose in my comment about agreeing with Shane, I was reading your first post as a form of this question, “Why aren’t pastors brave enough to tell the congregations that the historical-critical interpretation of scripture is right and most of the New Testament was probably not written by who they think it was?” To me, that seemed a bit too much certainty regarding a particular stream of scholarship and its conclusions. I guess I read that as a kind of liberal fundamentalism.
Anyway, even though I’ll probably stay in the peanut gallery ;-), I look forward to watching the conversation continue. Thanks for stopping by.