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...Tommy Hewitt Jones and Pete Foggitt—has taken the online community by storm, leaving in its wake polemical new groups on facebook.com, a renaissance for the synthesized orchestra hit, and increasingly vocal recognition for its composers ever since its web-launch in early February. According to Edward Bainton, a close friend of Jones and Foggitt who both produced and mastered the song, the concept occured to the duo as they sat in a Cambridge bar, discussing the obscene amounts of time they waste on the Facebook. “Tommy especially has this track record for making silly...
Eighty-one pages into The Good Book (Morrow; 383 pages; $25), his entertaining bid to grab serious Bible study back from the religious right, Peter Gomes quotes his guiding spirit: not St. Paul, Paul Tillich or scores of other cited exegetes, but obscure Yale historian and teetotaler Roland Bainton, who in 1958 defended his abstinence "based on biblical principles [although] not based on biblical precepts or biblical practice." Gomes applies this same distinction to biblical texts on slaves, Jews, women and homosexuals, explaining why each group's persecution or exclusion, even if derived literally from Holy Writ, runs counter...
These arguments serve a double purpose. As Minister at Harvard University's Memorial Church, Gomes detects "enormous spiritual cravings" among his semilapsed acquaintances, and he believes that large helpings of Scripture, smartly parsed, are perfect fare for the faith starved. Each application of Bainton's doctrine invites a new group into Gomes' revival tent; just as important, each serves as an example of the way the Bible can still speak to even the most liberal or intellectually sophisticated Christian...
...BOOK: Eighty-one pages into 'THE GOOD Book' (Morrow; 383 pages; $25), his entertaining bid to grab serious Bible study back from the religious right, Peter Gomes quotes his guiding spirit: not St. Paul, Paul Tillich or scores of other cited exegetes, but obscure Yale historian and teetotaler Roland Bainton, who in 1958 defended his abstinence 'based on biblical principles (although) not based on biblical precepts or biblical practice.' Gomes applies this same distinction to biblical texts on slaves, Jews, women and homosexuals, explaining why each group?s persecution or exclusion, even if derived literally from Holy Writ, runs counter...
...effect, says U.S. Historian Roland Bainton, Luther destroyed the implication that men could "bargain with...