Tyndale House, Barna and Viola Being Embarrassed
| Brad Boydston has been posting links to comments by scholar Ben Witherington on his blog, who has been reviewing a new book by George Barna and Frank Viola (not the former Twins pitcher): Pagan Christianity. It seems that Barna and Viola want suggest that the current expression of church worship is heavily pagan and doesn't have it's basis in NT Christianity -- at least that is what I am getting from Witherington's reviews, as I have not read the book. Witherington is a NT scholar at Asbury Seminary in Wilmore, KY (blog • website • Wikipedia), and he is shredding Barna's & Viola's poor scholarship and outright failure to get facts right. Brad rightly asked, "At what point do the editors at Tyndale House Publishers need to be accountable for letting so much historical inaccuracy slip through in Pagan Christianity? without a fact check?" Indeed. They and the authors should be outright embarrassed by now. |
posted by theultrarev at 2:11 PM
Comments on "Tyndale House, Barna and Viola Being Embarrassed"
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Anonymous said ... (11:27 AM, July 04, 2008) :
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Bradley said ... (7:01 AM, July 05, 2008) :
post a commentI doubt that. I read the book twice and then read Witherington’s review, and it strengthened the case for the book to me. There’s already another scholar who’s starting to expose all the holes in Witherington’s review. It’s on a few blogs but the entire series is being posted here http://www.paganchristianity.org/zensresponds1.htm
I bet the publisher and authors are quite happy with all the press the book is getting because of witherington’s review.
Tom
I agree Tom. Witherington's review was pretty unconvincing. It only strengthened my faith in the book's message. Zens did a great job revealing the leaks in it.