Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cvl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!harwood From: harwood@cvl.UUCP (David Harwood) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: recommended reading (fiction) Message-ID: <915@cvl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 18:09:02 EST Article-I.D.: cvl.915 Posted: Tue Oct 29 18:09:02 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 01:34:35 EST Distribution: net Organization: Computer Vision Lab, U. of Maryland, College Park Lines: 41 Recommended reading (fiction) -- in response to ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article 1415 of net.religion.christian: >From: gary@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (gary w buchholz) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Reply to Jeffrey Gillette - Ghostbusting Brevard Childs Message-ID: <1222@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Date: 22 Oct 85 23:43:45 GMT Organization: U. Chicago - Computation Center Lines: 134 ... ... I don't think Man is in need of any "supernatural" redemption. I don't think any supernatural redemption is either possible or necessary... ... ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I noticed that the author is a professing 'ghostbuster' at U. Chicago; possibly, he is a student of the divinity school. Anyway, I was reminded of a novel written 20 years ago by Martin Gardiner (the very one who for many years wrote the mathematical amusements column of Scientific American). It was about a religious young man from a small town (in Oklahoma I believe), wanting to be a minister, who went to study at U. Chicago. But his personality and faith disintegrated when he discovered that all the acclaimed professors of theology were atheists, who believed in nothing except the preeminance of their own intelligence. There's also a novel by sociologist, Peter Berger, who is respected for his study of ideology, The Social Construction of Reality. Also a sociologist of religion, a liberal Protestant, he wrote Rumours of Angels about signs of divine presence in everyday life, which was the basis for his novel involving -- as I recall from several years ago -- the moral reality of a Nazi war criminal, and an ordinary 'angel', amidst the comparatively unreal controversies of modern Gnostics. As I recall, the first was The Flight of Peter Proud, the second, Protocol of a Damnation.