Talk:Liberal Christianity

A slight revision

When the article says that liberal Christianity grew out of "Enlightenment rationalism and romanticism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries", should it not add "respectively" after the words centuries? My understanding is that die Aufklarung, or the Enlightenment, was in the eighteenth century, romanticism was a nineteenth century movement. YTKJ (talk) 14:53, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

EP Sanders

@Drmies Since you have raised questions, I wanted to add some info on EP Sanders. Sanders was extraordinarily influential compared to his peers. He revolutionized multiple fields of study while most scholars only touch their own. Here is a memorial post by New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman on Sanders' impact A Truly Great New Testament Scholar: E. P. Sanders in Memoriam - The Bart Ehrman Blog Silverfish2024 (talk) 20:01, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

There are 2 pages titled LIBERAL CHRISTIANITY

After much frustration during editing, Ive discovered there are TWO pages titled LIBERAL CHRISTIANITY. I am a novice editor & I dont know where to report duplicate pages. These 2 pages might be able to be combined. I apologize if this is NOT the page to report duplicate pages. I have no idea where to report those. Sorry! LMilagros5472 (talk) 18:20, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

I don't know where this second page is that you're talking about. StAnselm (talk) 18:55, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Spong

"literal interpretation of the Bible" is not basic Christian doctrine. Very far from it. The vast majority of Christians don't believe in biblicism. And even those who claim to do Sola Scriptura, believe in theology, not in the Bible. I have never met a Christian who believes in the Bible. tgeorgescu (talk) 07:23, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

I have met one. My deceased mother. She had owned a multivolume translation of the Bible with commentary by church theologians (which I have inherited and still own), but never bothered to read a single page from it, despite loudly proclaiming that every word was true. In contrast, my atheist grandfather liked to quote specific passages from the Book of Exodus and got great amusement by pointing out all the untruths, contradictions, and absurdities in the Pentateuch. I have met several atheists and at least one neo-pagan who studied the Bible primarily to dispute its accuracy. I have yet to meet a single Christian who bothered to open a bible to study it, and I am middle-aged. Dimadick (talk) 11:13, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

I wonder if this a regional and/or denominational experience issue. There are many churches in the American Evangelical movement that see biblicism as a core aspect of their doctrine. RC Sproul's books populate many bookshelves of American Evangelical Christian students. The John MacArthur Study Bible, which prints biblicist commentary interspersed throughout the scriptures, is one of the most popular Bibles in evangelical churches. If authors of this article are American, or have been subject to the loudness of American evangelical missionary teaching, then literal interpretation of the Bible likely seems like basic Christian doctrine. Lills42 (talk) 16:39, 14 June 2026 (UTC)