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He fails to tell the reader that his wholesale criticisms of the Bible were popularized by (1) the Scottish Realists’ anti-Semitic rhetoric which said that the Jews were incapable of achieving any literary quality, forcing a strict, wooden interpretation of that genre, and (2) the German Higher Criticism of the 19th century, which was for the most part a mutation of Scottish Realism. Spong jettisons orthodoxy’s understanding of the character and transmission of revelation, a view held as authoritative since the birth of orthodoxy at Pentecost 1,900-plus years ago.
An advertisement was taken out in your paper by Affordable Portables on page 29 that made me think of Spong’s position in relation to historic Christian orthodoxy: “CULTURE TIP: Amicule, deliciae, num is sum qui memtiar tibi?”
