The tragically hip vicar
Tuesday April 1, 2008
Categories: Christianity (general)
Mark Shea says there's nothing more painful than a tragically hip Anglican. This is the poor boob he's talking about: An Anglican vicar has tried to make Bible stories more “accessible” to modern readers by rewriting them to portray Goliath...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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From Wikipedia:
The Man Nobody Knows (1925) is the second book by the American author and advertising executive Bruce Fairchild Barton. Barton presents Jesus as "the founder of modern business," in an effort to make the Christian story accessible to businessmen of the time. [1]
When published in 1925, The Man Nobody Knows topped the nonfiction bestseller list,[2] and is one of the best selling non-fiction books of the 20th century.[3][4]
I love Eddie Izzard so much that I forgive him his lame Mormon jokes. (Sean Connery as King Henry the Eighth...yes, I can see that working.)
Re: the Barton book: Vom.
Didn't one come out a few years ago called "Jesus, CEO"? It defies parody!
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Didn't one come out a few years ago called "Jesus, CEO"? It defies parody!
Posted by: Rod Dreher | April 1, 2008 11:51 AM
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Yahoo search .... Amazon .... Read sample ...
Yikes! Everything old is new again, I guess...
Oh, my sweet swingin' flowers of the field . . . let me hip you to another and better Buckley--his Lordship.
http://www.informer.org/nazz.html
Don't just read the words--listen to the clip. Now that's preaching.
well...
the supernatural biblical stories were originally invented by superstitious ancient men...
so why can't they be reinvented?
ancient fiction isn't necessarily superior to modern fiction...
faith hope love joy peace to all...
Forgive God...
Is "godisaheretic" really Katherine Jefferts-Schori, or just one of her students? You decide:
"Our ways of reading Scripture shape the conclusions we come to. And often what we go looking for shapes the conclusions about what we read." (Katherine Jefferts-Schori, in an interview with Bill Moyers.)
All you have to do is imagine the ellipses...
:)
Completely off topic, but did you know that there is a band in Canada called the Tragically Hip? Best rock band in the world.
From reading this blog entry and the comments on it, anyone would think that no writer had ever retold familiar stories in unfamiliar ways before.
I thought the tragically hip Old Testament did a really good job of punching up that tired old Gilgamesh epic, just as our own snazzy host so successfully continues to repackage the comments of others as his own fresh blog entries.
Yay!! Karen, I love The Tragically Hip. We live to survive our paradoxes . . . But, for a good life, we just might have to weaken. : D
thanks for the comparison to Jefferts-Schori...
quite the compliment... :)
here's another shaped conclusion...
following on the Gilgamesh idea...
modern persons repackage the NT myths...
the NT authors repackaged some of the OT myths...
the OT authors repackaged earlier myths...
so... following an idea of Ecclesiastes...
there's not much new going on here...
faith hope love joy peace...
to all...
Forgive God...
... ;) ...
Yes, the Patriarchy is walking a rather wobbly tightrope when accusing others of myth-revisionism.
Sig,
FTR, at the last Patriarchy Meeting I voted that we NOT accuse anyone of myth-revisionism.
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