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Thursday, 24 January 2013

Same Bibles, Different Theologies and Histories

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling In the world of politics and imagination, theater usually trumps theology while history is most often vanquished by histrionics. President Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony for a second term reflects this truth, specifically as he uses two historic bibles-one belonging to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and another used only by Abraham Lincoln. Unfortunately, a third bible will be entirely in absentia. A letter written to a friend in 1864 summarized...

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