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Your otherwise insightful report on Vietnam's economic revival [COVER, April 24] misrepresents the extent of religious freedom there. Vietnam -- perhaps Asia's most spiritual country (it is overwhelmingly Buddhist) -- is entering the fifth decade of the communist government's campaign to eradicate all independent worship. Authorities still persecute religious...
YOUR STORY ATTEMPTED TO TRIVIALIZE the role of scholarly efforts like the Jesus Seminar in promoting honest public discussion of religious issues. You characterized me as a "onetime Protestant clergyman." I am the former head of the Society of Biblical Literature, a Guggenheim fellow and a senior Fulbright scholar. I...
In a nation that prizes its 'Protestant work ethic,' it's hard to believe that a religiously-delineated people that has also accomplished much through hard work fails to enjoy similar stature. When one considers the immense hardships that confronted Jews over the past century (and longer), their successes are...
"I don't think the Bible is literally true," says Bishop John Spong of the Episcopal diocese of Newark, New Jersey, answering a question scholars have tugged at for the past 200 years. Spong, who is invariably described as the enfant terrible of liberal Protestant theology, writes books with such...
Distressing as it is to a conservative Christian, that kind of reading is mild compared with the pronouncements from the left fringes of contemporary scholarship. The efforts of moderate theologians to find new meanings in Scripture are burdened by the decrees of such groups as the Jesus Seminar, which seem...