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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reynolds Price offers a simple solution to the din of millennium madness: respond to the quiet voice of Jesus [RELIGION, Dec. 6]. Price eloquently rewrites the Gospel in words too plain to miss. His work shows that an individual's honest approach will not be turned away. This is one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

You promised "A new gospel based on archaeology and the Bible," but Price's article was simply a trite amalgam of the synoptic Gospels (Mark, Matthew and Luke). The historical Jesus deserves better than a narrative dressed up in cute, up-to-date literalism. No wonder the Jesus on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

When the truth is not enough, give us fiction. Jesus got liposuction in Price's article, in which the author removed the "fat" of faith and offered a new Gospel for a new millennium. It appears that the man who as the Son of God declared "I am the Truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Price's article about Jesus was forthright, honest and direct. As one who believes in what Jesus stands for, Price writes with the bluntness of a reporter and the honesty of a follower. I've read the Bible many times; Price's article touched me as deeply. It lifted me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

What Price fails to mention in his intellectually self-indulgent piece is the amount of evil that people would have visited on the earth without a doctrine of divine love to temper their actions. Imperialism and enslavement predate Christianity. Evil men use the handiest reason to justify their evil deeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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