misquoting truth
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Richard Dawkins etc.TRANSCRIPT
“I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural.”
RichaRddawkins,from The God Delusion
A QUESTION OF TRUTH
God. Science. Religion. Is God a human invention?
The God DelusionTheNew York Times bestsellerbypreeminentscientist—andtoday’smost
prominentatheist—Richarddawkinsassertstheirrationalityofbeliefin
Godandthegrievousharmreligionhasinflictedonsociety,fromthe
crusadesto9/11.
The Dawkins Delusion?alisterMcGrathandJoannacollicuttMcGrathsubjectdawkins’scritiqueof
faithtorigorousscrutiny,assessingtherelevanceoffaithandthequestfor
meaninginresponsetothequestionsraisedbyThe God Delusion.
couldscienceputanendtoreligion?
istheideaofGodavirusofthemind?
isreligiousfaithresponsibleforhumanviolence?
coulditbeaformofchildabusetoraisechildreninareligioustradition?
A FORUM FOR DEBATE
Richard Dawkins“ifthisbookworksasiintend,
religiousreaderswhoopenitwill
beatheistswhentheyputitdown.”
Alister McGrath“dawkinssimplyoffersthe
atheistequivalentofslickhellfire
preaching,substitutingturbocharged
rhetoricandhighlyselective
manipulationoffactsforcareful,
evidence-basedthinking.”
“The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.”MichaelRuse,lucyleT.werkmeisterProfessorofPhilosophy,Floridastateuniversity
A POINT OF INTERESTBeforecomingtofaiththroughbothscientificandtheologicalstudy,alisterMcGrathwasastaunchatheistmuchlikeRicharddawkins.BothmennowteachatOxforduniversity.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE DAWKINS DELUSION?
“alisterMcGrathinvariablycombinesenormousscholarshipwithanaccessibleandengagingstyle.”
Rowan williams, archbishop of Canterbury
“alisterMcGrathdismantlestheargumentthatscienceshouldleadtoatheism,anddemonstratesinsteadthatdawkinshasabandonedhismuch-cherishedrationalitytoembraceanembitteredmanifestoofdogmaticatheistfundamentalism.”
FRanCis Collins, Director of the Human Genome Project
AUTHOR BIOSalister mcGrath (d.Phil.,Oxforduniversity)isprofessorofhistoricaltheologyatOxforduniversity.afterstudyingchemistryatOxford,heresearchedinthefieldofmolecularbiophysics.hethenmovedonfromstaunchatheismtospecializeinissuesofscienceandreligion.aprolificauthor,McGrathhasalsowrittenThe Twilight of Atheism andDawkins’ God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life.
Joanna Collicutt mcGrathislecturerinthepsychologyofreligionatheythropcollege,universityoflondon.shehasmadesignificantcontributionstoThe Dawkins Delusion?inthesectionsdealingwithbiblicalstudiesandtherelationshipofreligionwithpsychologyandtheneurosciences.sheiscoauthorwithJeremyduffofMeeting Jesus: Human Responses to a Yearning God.
978-0-8308-3446-4,144pages,cloth,$16.00Coming July 2007
“The best response to Bart Ehrman is to wrestle creatively with the questions that his books raise.”TiMOThyPaulJOnes,authorofMisquoting Truth
A QUESTION OF TRUTH
The Bible. Jesus. Christianity. How can we possibly believe?werethenewTestamentdocumentswidelydistortedbycopyists?
weretheGospelsnotbasedonthetestimonyofeyewitnesses?
couldourwholeaccountofJesus’resurrectionbetheresultoflegend?
Misquoting JesusinhisNew York TimesbestsellerMisquoting JesusBartehrmanprovides
convincinganswerstothesequestionsinanefforttochallengethecasefor
theinerrancyoftheBibleandthehistoricalrecordofJesusandchristianity.
Misquoting Truthwhilereadilyconcedingthatehrmanhasresearchedwell,pastorand
researcherTimothyPaulJonesarguesthatehrmanisfartooquicktojump
tofalseandunnecessaryconclusions.inhisnewbook,Misquoting Truth: A
Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman’s “Misquoting Jesus,”Jonesconfronts
ehrman’sassertionsonebyone,providinghiscaseforthereliabilityofthe
BibleasahistoricalrecordofJesusandearlychristianity.
A FORUM FOR DEBATE
Bart Ehrman“whatgooddoesitdotosaythatthe
wordsareinspiredbyGodifmost
peoplehaveabsolutelynoaccessto
thesewords,butonlytomoreorless
clumsyrenderingsofthesewords
intoalanguage?”
Timothy Paul Jones“idisagreestronglywithmanyof
dr.ehrman’sconclusions.ibelieve
thatthecontentofscriptureis
fullyhumanandfullydivine.i’m
convincedthatmycopyofthe
newTestamentdoesaccurately
describewhatJesussaidanddid.
andibelievethatsuchconvictions
canberooted...inthetestimony
ofhistory.”
A POINT OF INTERESTBothfromevangelicalbackgrounds,BartehrmanandTimothyPaulJonesfacedacrisisoffaithduringtheirstudiesthatledthemtoverydifferentconclusionsaboutGod,theBibleandchristianity.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR MISQUOTING TRUTH
“TimothyPaulJonesturnsthetablesonBartehrman’soverstatedMisquoting Jesus.heappliestoehrmanthesameprobinglogicthatehrmanclaimstoapplytothenewTestamentevidence.”
RobeRt YaRbRouGH, associate Professor of new testament, trinity evangelical Divinity school
coauthor of the bestselling The Da Vinci CodebreakerTimoThy Paul Jones
misquoTingTruTh
A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus
978-0-8308-3447-1,144pages,paper,$13.00Coming august 2007
AUTHOR BIOtimothy Paul Jones (ed.d.,ThesouthernBaptistTheologicalseminary)isseniorpastorofFirstBaptistchurchofRollinghills,Tulsa,Oklahoma.hehasalsoservedMidwesternBaptistTheologicalseminaryasavisitingprofessorofbiblicallanguages.heistheauthorofChristian History Made Easy andthebestsellingThe Da Vinci Codebreaker(withJamesGarlowandaprilwilliams).
dr.Jonesistherecipientofnumerousawardsforhisresearchandwriting,includingtheBakerBookhouseawardforexcellenceintheologicalstudies.
RELATED RESOURCESFabricating Jesus counteringsuchrecentreleasesasMisquoting Jesus, The Jesus Papersand
theGospel of Judas,craiga.evansleadsusthroughcontroversialtextsand
theoriestohistory’soneandonlyJesus.
290pages,cloth,978-0-8308-3318-4,$19.00
The Da Vinci QuestionJamesemerywhitesiftsthroughdanBrown’sclaimsaboutJesus,Mary
Magdaleneandearlychristianity,exposingtheGnosticheresyinherentin
The Da Vinci Code.
32pages,booklet,saddlestitched,978-0-87784-042-8,$1.50
The Judas Gospel nicholasPerrinprovidesanintroductiontotheGospel of Judas. Findingitto
benogospelatall,heappraisesitshistoricalvalueforstudyingJesus,Judas
andsecond-centuryGnosticism.
32pages,booklet,saddlestitched,978-0-87784-039-8,$1.50
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