Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Monday, July 07, 2008

A scholarly refutation


Ben Witherington rips "Pagan Christianity" from page to page

A lot of people just accept anything that people write, without using their critical faculties (if they've developed them at all) or the critical faculties of others. I'm glad he wrote this. (What I like the most about the short introductory post is the sentence "Dan Brown would have liked this book." That speaks volumes in and of itself...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Witherington’s review is being critiqued quite effectively by another scholar. Parts 1, 2, and 3 can be read at this site, http://www.paganchristianity.org/zensresponds1.htm
William