Re: Religious Book Discusion Groups

In article <Q6YGj.6127$Pc2.5197@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Bren says...
>
>On Mar 19, 8:16=A0pm, curmudgeon <briticanlan...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> At my local Church we try to get as many members of the congregation as
>> possible involved in Religious themed books as we possibly can.
>> Two books that are now up for consideration are, the Purpose Driven
Church=
>,
>> by Rick Warren, and Christianity for the rest of Us, by Diana Butler
Bass.=
>
>>
>> "There are no enemies in science just anomalies"
>> *CUR*
>
>B - all religions? or just Christianity themed ones?. I tend to love
>to read books on all faiths written from the perspective of those
>actually IN the faith themselves to get ONE truth of the matter.

The problem is, of course, that by following this procedure, you almost
certainly guarantee that the 'truth' you get is not truth at all. There
can be
only one 'adequatio' in the classic definition of truth, "adequatio rei et
intellectus".

Not to mention, there cannot be more than one truth. Everything else is
only
approximation, whether good or bad. But once you insist on there being
more than
one, you guarantee your approximation will be bad.


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