Comments on: “It is by the grace of God that I am here”: Future Bob Jones University Student at Interfaith Gathering http://multifaithworld.com/2010/01/12/807/ Leadership for a World of Religious Diversity Tue, 25 May 2010 05:10:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: R. Jarah http://multifaithworld.com/2010/01/12/807/#comment-389 R. Jarah Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:41:46 +0000 http://multifaithworld.com/2010/01/12/807/#comment-389 Hi Nancy! My comment never showed up on the blog. If you still have it, maybe you can post it publicly. Thanks! Jarah Hi Nancy! My comment never showed up on the blog. If you still have it, maybe you can post it publicly.
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Jarah

]]> By: R. Jarah http://multifaithworld.com/2010/01/12/807/#comment-384 R. Jarah Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:44:55 +0000 http://multifaithworld.com/2010/01/12/807/#comment-384 Nancy, Levi Petrone gives a hope-inspiring interview. Most of all, I hope that he and other Christians who rely upon even the most generous interpretation of Matthew 7:6 ("do not throw your pearls before swine") come to recognize the teaching's inherent degradation of whomever the swine comes to represent. The challenge he poses (and seems to be approaching courageously) is how a Fundamentalist Christian could transcend a sense of theological superiority and still cleave strongly to his/her faith tradition and its particularistic elements. The question seems particularly difficult to answer from within a religious world view that puts so much emphasis on proselytizing. It makes me wonder what a Fundamentalist Christian's version of "The Dignity of Difference" a la Rabbi Jonathan Saks might look like. Thanks for sharing this! Nancy,
Levi Petrone gives a hope-inspiring interview. Most of all, I hope that he and other Christians who rely upon even the most generous interpretation of Matthew 7:6 (“do not throw your pearls before swine”) come to recognize the teaching’s inherent degradation of whomever the swine comes to represent. The challenge he poses (and seems to be approaching courageously) is how a Fundamentalist Christian could transcend a sense of theological superiority and still cleave strongly to his/her faith tradition and its particularistic elements. The question seems particularly difficult to answer from within a religious world view that puts so much emphasis on proselytizing. It makes me wonder what a Fundamentalist Christian’s version of “The Dignity of Difference” a la Rabbi Jonathan Saks might look like. Thanks for sharing this!

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