SUGGESTION: Logos Distribution Philosophy re: blogs
First, I must admit that I have never run into an erotic, graphic, or violent books on any of the sites except when someone has directed me to them in the forums. I just reread the Logos Distribution Philosophy and find it reassuring, assuming that it is followed. However, it raised another issue that concerns me.
~66.5% of the Christians worldwide are Catholic or Orthodox and are reasonably served by the Verbum blog
~13.1% of the Christians worldwide are Evangelical or Fundamentalist and are reasonably served by the Logos blog
This leaves a very influential 20.4% of Christians unaccounted for including traditional Protestantism. These are the Christians who produce much of the cutting-edge Bible studies, who prototype new approaches, who force me to reconsider my positions. Unfortunately, there is no blog highlighting their materials for me. I would very much like to see a blog that has the middle way churches (Anglican and Lutheran), the peace churches (Mennonite, Quaker ...), the traditional Protestant churches, and the unclassified churches as its focus.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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This is a very astute observation and one worthy of follow-up. One could suppose that those parts that you have called out see themselves as too distinct from each other to be able to come together as one voice. Maybe this is the way that Logos sees it as well. If that is the case it is really sad. Oh for the time that we would come together in unity, setting aside our propensity for looking for and calling out our differences and instead coming together on those things which are the same.
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Great thoughts MJ. I know how you feel. We are all part of a differential approach depending on where we come from. It is be that the groups you have identified consider themselves to be too different from one another to be able to speak with one voice. Perhaps this is also how Logos interprets the situation. That would be very tragic and awful for process positioning if that were the true. Many scholarly approaches to biblical studies are deeply embedded in contextual and philosophical presuppositions, which are not made explicit. Why is this true?
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Christian Alexander said:
Many scholarly approaches to biblical studies are deeply embedded in contextual and philosophical presuppositions, which are not made explicit. Why is this true?
This is not the place to discuss the various forms of epistemology that are applied to religion. Use Wikipedia or Google or Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy to get started on finding an answer. Among what you will discover is that some traditions are much more self-aware/self-reflective than others.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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@MJ. Smith thanks for your feedback. My team runs the Logos blog, Word by Word, and we regularly publish Anglicans and Lutherans and have been working to broaden our writer base significantly over the last couple of years. Feel free to shoot me an email if there's specific writers you'd like to see us approach. We do have a vetting process, but I'm definitely open to hearing your ideas.
Here are a few of the Anglican and Lutheran writers we've added (I probably missed a few):
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