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To: epicure who wrote (192063)	6/19/2012 11:09:14 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 543820

So sure, I agree existentialism was "in the air" but so was a lot of other stuff. And it was the mix that made the times, not just one element of the mix. We're fairly close to agreeing here. I completely agree that it was a mix of a great many things and that it takes a fairly careful analysis to even begin to think about weighting them. And none of us are going to do that right now. The only point I think we disagree about is the mix of existential philosophy and theological reconstruction that was also present. My only point is that it was very much in the air among some of the student leaders. So there was not so much a conflict as a confluence. The conflict exists only if one thinks religion is only about some sort of fundamentalism, even broadly understood. It's important to know that even as early as Augustine, theologians argued that the biblical events were best understood as metaphors for present thinking, not as historical truths that had to be believed.