Word: sermonizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty-five years ago, the Tofflers wrote in Future Shock that "a well-oiled machinery for the creation and diffusion of fads is now an entrenched part of the modern economy." A generation after their first great sermon, the high priest and priestess of futurism may finally get to practice what they've been preaching...
...minute later, a wiry 13 year-old strolls into the office and leans on Barbosa's desk, ready to accept whatever sermon Barbosa metes...
...leave it out they did. According to the The Five Gospels, only 18% of the words ascribed to Jesus in the Gospels may have actually been spoken by him. John was eliminated completely; only one sentence in Mark met muster. Of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, the only words in red were "Our Father" and "Love your enemies," and four other brief sayings...
...Take the Sermon on the Mount," says Craig Blomberg, a Baptist clergyman who considers himself a conservative Evangelical. "We know it's not a straight, stenographic account. When you look up those passages in Matthew, they can be read in a matter of minutes. Whereas a teacher who spoke to a large crowd like that might have held forth much...
...degree of accuracy that would not have been there otherwise." Blomberg explains biblical inerrancy, long a defining tenet of conservative American religion, as follows: "When the texts are interpreted in accordance with their historical and literary context, what they say is true." That allows him to concede that the Sermon on the Mount might have gone on longer than the Gospels suggest, and also to credit the differences among Matthew, Mark, Luke and John to "omissions and paraphrases" that were a natural part of an oral culture. Once that is settled, he believes the picture of Jesus that they present...