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JOEL STEIN ISN"T THE ONLY ONE WHO IS CHANGING RELIGION…....

Apparently, OTHERS HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM.

Say you’re a theologian in the religion business who’s concluded that your company’s oldest and most trusted product doesn’t really exist. What do you do after the death of God? You could lie to the customers and stockholders, continue writing copy, and ruefully await retirement….Or, like Mark C. Taylor, you could become an entreprofessor, a broker in the emerging intellectual markets, trading in some of the hottest stocks in cultural capital. Pooling your dwindling fortunes in theology and philosophy with venture capital from postmodernism, you nimbly navigate the volatile and bubbling markets in profundity, hang out with the rich and famous, and after a while you’re a pioneer in internet education, adulated in the Sunday New York Times. As long as the bubbles don’t burst, and as long as the old business doesn’t revive, you’re as safe as a tenured academic—which, of course, you are already.

Hilariously, or sadly, depending on your point of view, the above description is NOT applied by some cynical outsider viewing the current scene in theology. It’s simply a paraphrase of professor Taylor’s own writings on the subject…... You’ll cringe, you’ll cry, you may even get mad! Definitely worth reading!

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