David McLain Carr

This book is probably groundbreaking for someone who has lived under a stone for the last 200 years. It's standard liberal Christianity combined with a tiresome arrogance - or better: intellectual snobbery - of "Most Christians will get a shock when they read this book because it claims something different from what they have been taught their whole life". For example: "Students are often troubled to learn that some of the gospel stories of Jesus may not have actually happened just as they are reported". I've heard that claim like a thousand times now, so "no" this book doesn't destroy my fantasy world and "no" this books isn't as groundbreaking as it claims.… (meer)