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Originally Posted by Mayer
6. What is your view of the Bible and what role should it play in our lives?
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Mayer:
I am assuming that since you are attending RMC you are an evangelical Christian. As an evangelical myself, I have come to observe that most of our movement are completely naive regarding the roots of evangelicalism, the history of the Bible, and the emergence of the doctrine of inerrency.
You really should read the following:
George Marsden,
Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Geroge Marsden, ed.
Evangelicalism and Modern America, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984).
James Barr,
Fundamentalism. (Second Ed.; London: SCM Press, 1981)
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Beyond Fundamentalism. (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1984).
John Barton,
People of the Book? The Authority of the Bible in Christianity. (Philadelphia: Westminster John Knox, 1988).