How Oxford and Peter Singer drove me from atheism to Jesus

[Bretton Garcia]

122. Sarah Irving-Stonebraker, and Science-Fiction Christianity

Like many converts to Christianity, Sarah Irving- Stonebraker drifted into Christianity in part by reading CS Lewis' "Mere Christianity." But? Aside from converting later in life to, and writing about, some kind of odd, to-some heretical, Christianity, CS Lewis note, also wrote science fiction. And wrote about quaint Medieval ideas.

So was Lewis et alia a good guide to solid truths? And what kind of religion did Sarah finally embrace?

In most ways it was a typical kind of modernist. hypocritical, sophistical, "High" Christianity. It had early on abandoned complete literal fidelity to much of the Bible and most churches. It had found the equivocal word tricks in the New Testament. That to be sure presented a human, not godlike, Jesus.

In some ways it was a more intellectually defensible Christianity than literalist Christianity; one halfway to secularity and atheism in fact. But in other ways, it had all the deficits and hypocrisy of "high" Christianity.

Sarah was still too sentimental. And has not yet discovered the Science of Religion, the scientific understanding of the Bible. Or the contextualizing understanding that we get of religion, from Social Science, Culture Studies.

https://larryhurtado.wordpress.com/2019/05/13/text-collections-and-an-emergent-nt-canon/