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Marxist · 12-19-2005, 09:34 PM

I'm sorry for implying you are lazy. It is a rather obscure topic, and I apologize for my admittedly harsh tone.

Toto · 02-23-2006, 11:44 PM

As a somewhat ironic footnote to this brouhaha, the Jan-Feb 2006 issue of the Fourth R contains an article, "Putting the Historical Jesus in His Place" by Paul Alan Laughlin, which approvingly describes the New Thought tradition:

Quote:

From a New Thought perspective, Christian or otherwise, the scholars of the Jesus Seminar would have done everyone a favor if they had declared themselves utterly unable to recover an historical Jesus. An announcement of such a "failure" would have helped to remove yet another external distraction (and no doubt the most insidious) from the inward-focus of mysticism, and it would be none other than Jesus. All New Thought Christians need is the innate, inherent, and indelible Christ within. Everything else is dispensable.

So it's more acceptable to retreat into hazy mysticism than to say that early Christians were the sort of mystics for whom the inner Christ was the point of their religion.

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Marxist Banned Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: US Posts: 301	I'm sorry for implying you are lazy. It is a rather obscure topic, and I apologize for my admittedly harsh tone.

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