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#274453 - 01/21/08 11:08 PM
Re: Patriarch Bartholomew: Encountering the Mystery
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Theologos
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Registered: 02/13/07
Posts: 89
Loc: PA
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This looks like a definite must read and a nice addition to any home library.
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#275386 - 01/26/08 11:07 AM
Re: Patriarch Bartholomew: Encountering the Mystery
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AMM
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Registered: 04/04/05
Posts: 2504
Loc: PA
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It got a very poor review in the Wall Street Journal yesterday.
http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=14830
Without having read the book, and if the review is fairly accurate, I would certainly say I have to agree.
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#275520 - 01/27/08 09:37 AM
Re: Patriarch Bartholomew: Encountering the Mystery
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Terry Bohannon
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Registered: 05/15/07
Posts: 1403
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Regarding globalization, Bartholomew cannot decide whether global capitalism is bad ("there are losers as well as winners") or good ("We must learn, therefore, both to think and to act in a global manner"). Plus, we must "transcend all racial competition and national rivalry," "promote a peaceful resolution of disagreements about how to live in this world," and yadda, yadda, yadda.
It offends me when a writer uses "yadda, yadda, yadda"...That she fails to approach a fair point-of-view in reading the book offends me even more.
Why review a book if you are not at least somewhat familiar with its subject matter? If you have predispositions against a topic, a writer, or a faith, why bother? She says "Orthodox Christianity is not dead yet," as if it should have been or could be dead at any moment.
You don't go over to someone's house and greet their parents to say, "Ahhh, I see your mom isn't dead yet." That's not polite. Then saying "She's still kicking, look she blinked!" after that doesn't improve your lot.
It is very difficult to take her seriously.
Terry
Edited by Terry Bohannon (01/27/08 09:55 AM)
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#275569 - 01/27/08 04:08 PM
Re: Patriarch Bartholomew: Encountering the Mystery
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theophan
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Registered: 11/27/02
Posts: 2690
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http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=04-04-015-f
This link from the thread "Modernism . . ." in the East and West section immediately comes to mind.
Most Western Christians reviewing a book by an Eastern Patriarch or theologian would probably come at it from this angle. The reviewer is into an area that she would have no idea about and her assumption is probably that Eastern Christianity is simply an ethnic version of Western Christianity. Unfortunately, that is the prevailing attitude one finds and it takes constant education to correct it.
In Christ,
BOB
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#275607 - 01/27/08 08:43 PM
Re: Patriarch Bartholomew: Encountering the Mystery
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Theologos
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Registered: 02/13/07
Posts: 89
Loc: PA
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Did you happen to see what book the reviewer wrote? Finding the Human Jesus, or some humanistic title like that.
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#282367 - 03/11/08 02:56 PM
Re: Patriarch Bartholomew: Encountering the Mystery
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Dismas
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Registered: 12/20/03
Posts: 4
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I received an invitation to review this book.
I have it posted on my website at http://orthotracts.org
The book will be available this week.
Peace,
Dismas
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#282408 - 03/11/08 08:41 PM
Re: Patriarch Bartholomew: Encountering the Mystery
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Mykhayl
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Registered: 02/16/08
Posts: 274
Loc: Pgh, PA USA
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C. I. X.
Thank you Dismas for directing to a positive step. Why do many reviewing reviewers? Poor “ethnic church” defense. If you don’t like what they say don’t try to understand their reason in order to rectify the perception, question their reasoning putting them on the defensive. Is a retreat really better than a dialogue?
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