Word: semipagan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heterodoxy. A mathematician in his youth, he has spent most of his life in holy orders, trying, as he put it, to make the beliefs of the Christian religion "come to terms with science and scholarship." For Bishop Barnes, this involved repudiating the virgin birth of Christ ("a crude, semipagan story"), the existence of Adam and Eve, and such biblical accounts as Jonah and the whale and Noah's ark. He does not believe in miracles-whether current or biblical...
...notable example is Anglican Bishop Barnes of Birmingham, England, whose book, The Rise of Christianity, refers to the Virgin Birth as "a crude, semipagan story ..." TIME has encountered similar opinions among the Anglicans' Episcopal cousins...
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