The Guardian: "My father, who was a Methodist minister, once had a blazing row with a fundamentalist. This good soul – a butcher and fiery lay preacher always with a battered King James Bible tucked under his arm – argued that the miracles of Jesus really happened. Dad was what was then called a 'modernist': he believed that many of the Bible stories, Old and New Testament, were not literally true but 'symbolic'; in unguarded moments he would hint that even the resurrection of Jesus did not necessarily happen, what mattered was that the gospel story illustrated a great mystical truth."
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Anne Boleyn and the theatre of reformation
The Guardian: "My father, who was a Methodist minister, once had a blazing row with a fundamentalist. This good soul – a butcher and fiery lay preacher always with a battered King James Bible tucked under his arm – argued that the miracles of Jesus really happened. Dad was what was then called a 'modernist': he believed that many of the Bible stories, Old and New Testament, were not literally true but 'symbolic'; in unguarded moments he would hint that even the resurrection of Jesus did not necessarily happen, what mattered was that the gospel story illustrated a great mystical truth."
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