Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!ucdavis!ucbvax!decvax!bellcore!petrus!magic!joevax!nvc!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Re: Theology: it's not just for theologians anymore Message-ID: <2062@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 18:46:10 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.2062 Posted: Wed Nov 6 18:46:10 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Nov-85 05:33:34 EST References: <1263@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <2071@umcp-cs.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 21 >>Charley Wingate has remarked several times in response to my postings >>that I would set "theology" above the laity and out of their reach. In >>Sanders work Charley may find the peaceful union of Church and theology >>that he seeks. Sanders declares quite explicitly: >> "Canonical criticism may perhaps be the corrective to what happened >> because of the Enlightenment, when the Bible was taken from the >> church lectern into the scholars study. The movement of canonical >> criticism is that of the scholars being openly willing to be a >> SERVANT of the believing communities" [ emphasis mine ] > For the moment, I'll ignore the question of whether I agree with the kind of > criticism Sanders proposes. But I will say that to a great extent I don't > agree with his servant idea-- not unless you are willing to consider the > President of the USA your servant! [WINGATE] That's the idea behind democracy, Charles: the government is supposed to elected to serve the people, not the other way around. You have a very weird perspective on scholarship and authority. -- Popular consensus says that reality is based on popular consensus. Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr