tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19733180.post6615586610704711211..comments2024-03-24T07:56:33.811-05:00Comments on Allan R. Bevere: Today's Christian Conservatives Sound Like Yesterday's Christian LiberalsAllan R. Beverehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07903011101108437513noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19733180.post-47725261781785607942015-08-13T18:04:18.366-05:002015-08-13T18:04:18.366-05:00Taylor,
Yes... without theology the significance ...Taylor,<br /><br />Yes... without theology the significance of Christianity becomes practical psychology.Allan R. Beverehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07903011101108437513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19733180.post-49770998006088954302015-08-10T16:51:56.456-05:002015-08-10T16:51:56.456-05:00Allan,
Bishop Willimon could have written this in...Allan,<br /><br />Bishop Willimon could have written this in 1988 just as easily.<br /><br />I was Southern Baptist then, and a messenger to the 1987 and 1988 Southern Baptist Conventions from my church in Louisville, Kentucky (I was in seminary there at the time).<br /><br />While visiting the bookstore and looking at the titles of the leaders of the fundamentalist takeover (almost all of them pastors of megachurches), I found something really odd-- or, at least, odd to me. Of all the books on sale, not one of them was about theology. Or even about the Bible per se. All of them without exception were about how to manage your emotions, solve your problems, or become more successful in life. Yes, they used some biblical references to frame their case, but one could have actually found the very same kinds of arguments in the self-help section of any secular bookstore. <br /><br />Taylor W Burton Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00963804209682220712noreply@blogger.com