RE: Lost for centuries, a cache of photos spurs research on Islam's holy text.

2008-01-16 Thread Scott Stewart
r SSTWebworks 4405 Oakshyre Way Raleigh, NC. 27616 (919) 874-6229 (home) (703) 220-2835 (cell) -Original Message- From: Loathe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:48 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Lost for centuries, a cache of photos spurs research on Islam&#

RE: Lost for centuries, a cache of photos spurs research on Islam's holy text.

2008-01-16 Thread Loathe
:38 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Lost for centuries, a cache of photos spurs research on Islam's holy text. Translation of the bible into the language of the people sustained the Reformation. If you are going to say that scripture is a higher authority than church tradition, you have

RE: Lost for centuries, a cache of photos spurs research on Islam's holy text.

2008-01-16 Thread Loathe
different and civilization hadn't come as far as it has, well western civilization at least. -Original Message- From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:55 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Lost for centuries, a cache of photos spurs research on Is

RE: Lost for centuries, a cache of photos spurs research on Islam's holy text.

2008-01-16 Thread Billy Cox
quire interpretation by a professional theologian. -Original Message- From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 7:55 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Lost for centuries, a cache of photos spurs research on Islam's holy text. What about the dispute

Re: Lost for centuries, a cache of photos spurs research on Islam's holy text.

2008-01-16 Thread Larry Lyons
What about the disputes over the translation of the bible from latin to English and other languages. I was thinking for instance of the classic saying of Hugh Latimer to his friend Nicholas Ridley, as they were both about to be burned as heretics. -- Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this d

RE: Lost for centuries, a cache of photos spurs research on Islam's holy text.

2008-01-15 Thread Billy Cox
Ironically, the Reformation resulted largely from Martin Luther calling the Church *back* to the sacred text (sola scriptura). The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was for Christianity more comparable to this situation for Islam. Whether it will register among Muslims and become an occasion for

Re: Lost for centuries, a cache of photos spurs research on Islam's holy text.

2008-01-15 Thread Jerry Barnes
"Didn't Christianity go through something similar just before the Reformation and the rise of protestantism?" I am sure that some in power didn't want the status quo changed. I just read somewhere recently (it escapes me now though) about a Catholic response to the rigor that German historians br

Re: Lost for centuries, a cache of photos spurs research on Islam's holy text.

2008-01-15 Thread G Money
It's been a LNG time since my last church history classbut I thought the Reformation and resulting schism that gave rise to the Protestant line of Christianity, was more in response to disputes over the papacy and the granting of indulgences, among other things.? If there was scholarly

RE: Lost for centuries, a cache of photos spurs research on Islam's holy text.

2008-01-15 Thread Billy Cox
Scholarly criticism is small potatoes compared with the power of editorial cartoons. -Original Message- From: Vivec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:36 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Lost for centuries, a cache of photos spurs research on Islam's holy text. Ap

Re: Lost for centuries, a cache of photos spurs research on Islam's holy text.

2008-01-15 Thread Larry Lyons
>Sounds like an interesting study. > >I don't see it going to far though. Intimidation will probably bring it to >a close. Didn't Christianity go through something similar just before the Reformation and the rise of protestantism? ~~~

Re: Lost for centuries, a cache of photos spurs research on Islam's holy text.

2008-01-15 Thread Jerry Barnes
Sounds like an interesting study. I don't see it going to far though. Intimidation will probably bring it to a close. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial htt