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To: Academiadotorg

30 years ago I had a job in a Christian Book Store.

I also worked at a Liberal Protestant Seminary in their Book Department.

At the Bookstore, the favorite Book was the Bible. We had shelves of them, KJV, Interlinear, RSV, NIV, The Living Bible, The Good News, The New American Bible(RCC), The Jerusalem Bible, Strongs Concordance, Vines, Bible Dictionaries, Bible atlases, and also books about grief, parenting, cults, meditation, prayer, politics, America, Jesus, Sunday School, Ministry, Christian Counselling, and a full line of Vacation Bible School and Sunday School supplies. (Real Life)

Meanwhile, at the seminary, the only Version of the Bible was the RSV, and the shelves were replete with books by feminists like Rosemary Reuther, Liberation Theologians like Gustav Gutierez, and Liberal Bible Critics (Textual criticism, redactive critics, etc) (Academia)

The divide was so obvious that the seminary became a place of oppression and drudgery for me, while the Bookstore “for the People” was a delight.


4 posted on 10/15/2015 7:58:18 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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Oh...and C.S. Lewis and Tolkien were nowhere to be found in the seminary, but had an entire shelf dedicated to them in the bookstore.


5 posted on 10/15/2015 7:59:41 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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