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   From: John@nospam.net   
      
   "Stephen Bayzik"  wrote in message   
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   > "John"  wrote in message   
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   > > Yes It would shock me Stephen. Last I looked most Catholics believed   
   > > the Jesus of the NT was the Messiah and the Son of God.   
   > > But this is kind of fun never the less :-)   
   > > Sort of like..."what's my line?"   
   > > You seem like a good sport though.   
   > > Let me guess, you follow the theology of liberal scholars like   
   > > Crossan, Borg, Funk and Fredricksen?   
   > > Am I getting warm?   
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   > Thanks John. Observe that Roman Catholic Church contains a wide variety of   
   > people - from saints to outright bastards, from the simple to the pompous   
   > fools like myself.   
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   > As to "theology" I am not necessarily allied with "the liberals". The one   
   > individual whom I feel akin to is Pierre Teilhard de Chardin  S.J. who was   
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   > great palaeontologist and a personal friend of Huxley. A renegade Jesuit   
   who   
   > viewed "man qua man", not man qua Christianity as the objective of   
   > salvation. His two publications which influenced me the most were "Le   
   Milieu   
   > Divin and The Phenomenon of Man".   
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   > Take care   
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   > Stephen Bayzik   
      
   That's cool, I'll have to check him out. I really enjoy reading   
   the scholarly debates.   
      
   I just read the book "The Historical Jesus" by the scholar Habermas.   
   It's a good read that is a good learning tool on critical scholarship.   
      
   God Bless,   
   John   
      
      
      
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