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A Pilgrim People: Learning Through the Church Year A Pilgrim People: Learning Through the Church Year by John H. Westerhoff III
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“We turn sacred story into historical event and doctrinal statement. We produce people who use the biblical story as pornography (a subject turned into an object) or as idolatry (a means turned into an end).”
John H. Westerhoff III, A Pilgrim People: Learning Through the Church Year
“Have you ever tried to discuss the Bible with a literalist? For literalists there is no story, no poetry, no imagination, only doctrinal truths to be believed, that is, to be asserted intellectually as true.”
John H. Westerhoff III, A Pilgrim People: Learning Through the Church Year