Comments on: Busting Myths About Christianity: Assessing Myths 4-6 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/01/busting-myths-about-christianity-assessing-myths-4-6.html Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:37:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ehttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/01/busting-myths-about-christianity-assessing-myths-4-6.html#comment-51517 E Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:05:07 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/01/busting-myths-about-christianity-assessing-myths-4-6.html#comment-51517 I am a Romanian who is an Orthodox Christian and a self-proclaimed intellectual. My parents both are of the same faith as I am, and both hold PhD's in biomedical research. My grandfather is a theologian and writes copiously about Romanian cultural history and politics. My uncle is a bio ethicist who collaborates extensively with international scholars of the same profession who are non-orthodox, and even non-religious. I am in pursuit of a MS in experimental psychology. I hold the tradition in my family as an existence proof that a Christianity and secular scholasticism are (at times) compatible. So the hypothesis: perhaps the "incompatibility" discussed is specific to contemporary American protestantism. There are several contemporary french Catholic intellectuals I know of, and plenty American orthodox ones (at my church, which is on a university campus, at least 30% of the parishioners hold at least an MS/MA). I also have several friends who are Buddhist/American/intellectual. I am a Romanian who is an Orthodox Christian and a self-proclaimed intellectual. My parents both are of the same faith as I am, and both hold PhD’s in biomedical research. My grandfather is a theologian and writes copiously about Romanian cultural history and politics. My uncle is a bio ethicist who collaborates extensively with international scholars of the same profession who are non-orthodox, and even non-religious. I am in pursuit of a MS in experimental psychology. I hold the tradition in my family as an existence proof that a Christianity and secular scholasticism are (at times) compatible.

So the hypothesis: perhaps the “incompatibility” discussed is specific to contemporary American protestantism. There are several contemporary french Catholic intellectuals I know of, and plenty American orthodox ones (at my church, which is on a university campus, at least 30% of the parishioners hold at least an MS/MA). I also have several friends who are Buddhist/American/intellectual.

]]> By: Blog Quotes | Bowden McElroyhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/01/busting-myths-about-christianity-assessing-myths-4-6.html#comment-40764 Blog Quotes | Bowden McElroy Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:50:38 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/01/busting-myths-about-christianity-assessing-myths-4-6.html#comment-40764 [...] Dan Edelen at Cerulean Sanctum: You won’t find a church with a Fifty Year Plan. Or a Twenty, for that matter. Long-range [...] [...] Dan Edelen at Cerulean Sanctum: You won’t find a church with a Fifty Year Plan. Or a Twenty, for that matter. Long-range [...]

]]> By: Good. (Engl.) « 230 kmhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/01/busting-myths-about-christianity-assessing-myths-4-6.html#comment-35982 Good. (Engl.) « 230 km Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:50:01 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/01/busting-myths-about-christianity-assessing-myths-4-6.html#comment-35982 [...] Sanctum is blogging an interesting series right now which was the inspiration for this post. In Busting Myths about Christianity, Dan says this: So whither the Christian intellectual? Do any still [...] [...] Sanctum is blogging an interesting series right now which was the inspiration for this post. In Busting Myths about Christianity, Dan says this: So whither the Christian intellectual? Do any still [...]

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