Saundthorp you seem angry or shocked or surprised or irritated.........or all of those things regarding this discussion.
It's not my intention to cause you any of those feelings. Please be assured that I am taking this as seriously as you are, and I'm not saying things recklessly or anything like that. I'm wondering if you could give me the opportunity to write and discuss without giving me a response which some might see as a bit dramatic e.g. "taking my breath away" - I'm not fighting, I'm discussing.
My Christian background is not Roman Catholic - it's Calvinistic Methodist and then Anglican and I would say that by now it's developed further into a liberal post-Christian stance - though still well within the fold of theological rumination.
Undergraduate Theology and Exploring Faith at University opened up the Bible for me in the first term, it told me about the origin of the Bible (not Darwin's The origin of the species, he he
) and taught me about the structure of the Bible - who wrote different tracts - the Pentateuchal tradition, the Elohistic, the redaction by later writers, the links between Old and New, and so on. All things that Roman Catholic priests also study in their seminaries. The knowledge gained by ministers in their training is not always passed on to the pew, pronouncements from the pulpit are normally seen as pastoral rather than academic so it's not often generally known that the Bible is seen as a collection of books over many centuries rather than a magically written single book.
I have to go to work now, so sorry to have to leave it there for the time being.
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