{"id":3132,"date":"2006-04-14T01:21:53","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T01:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/an-agenda-at-work.html"},"modified":"2006-04-14T01:21:53","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T01:21:53","slug":"an-agenda-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/an-agenda-at-work.html","title":{"rendered":"An Agenda at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darrell Bock in Christianity Today:<\/a><\/p>\n

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K<\/strong>eeping up with all the new Jesus books these days takes a scorecard. Just about the time one thing is behind us, a new one pops up on the radar. There is no doubt that The Da Vinci Code<\/em> movie has spawned an array of works trying to take Dan Brown to the next level. Not all these efforts possess the same significance, but they all are trying to hype a revised understanding of Christian history. We may well be entering an era of more discussion about early Christian history than has existed in decades.<\/p>\n

It is important to appreciate that many people asking questions or embracing the recent materials have no background in church history, so they have no way of assessing what is being said. Their questions are quite sincere in light of the repeated message they are hearing that the new materials should change our view of church history. However, the group that is producing this material is quite certain that these new finds do change our history significantly, even though the new finds do not really reach back to the first century. Such hype needs to be shown for what it really is, more efforts to discredit Jesus, the apostles, and the Bible and to exchange these central elements of Christian faith for a less unique, domesticated form of Christianity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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