[Vision2020] Review of Fox-Genovese book.

[DonaldH675 at aol.com]

Visionaries
 
A friend sent me this link to a recent review of Elizabeth Fox Genovese's  
book  "The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith  in the Southern 
Slaveholders' Worldview."   (Some of you may  recall that she was to be the featured 
speaker at a recent NSA graduation. And,  of course her husband has written a 
blurb for Doug Wilson's reworked pamphlet  "Southern Slavery As It Was, which 
is now called "Black and Tan." )
 
The review points out the principle problems with the work (while  
acknowledging the great footnotes - Doug should read it for that reason  alone, he could 
use some polishing on that skill).  Ms.  Fox-Genovese is apparently about 
thirty years behind in the research  and  much of the book is devoted to her 
understanding the minds of godly  Christian slaveholders etc. etc. etc.  (Maybe 
this was a collaborative  effort?)  If any NSA students are still reading V2020 
I urge them to take a  look - the review is indicative of how real historians 
work.  
_http://www.powells.com/review/2006_02_09_ 
(http://www.powells.com/review/2006_02_09) 
 
Another link that is well worth following is a recently developed  website 
devoted to Christ Church East aka the Highland Study Center and its  pastor, 
R.C. Sproul Jr.  Spoul has been held accountable by his  presbytery (unlike Doug, 
he actually attended a seminary and was ordained)  for spiritual abuse of 
church members.   Imagine  that.  just because Sproul likes his beer and cigars,  
apparently misuses his church authority, and has confessed to tax fraud,  
those darned uptight Presbyterians have defrocked him.  Doug Wilson has  been 
kissing up to R.C. Jr. for years and has moved rapidly to entice him into  
Wilson's own self-started group of ecclesiastic pals, the Confederation of  Reformed 
Evangelicals.  Not surprisingly, CRE members specialize  in overlooking 
pastoral flaws probably because many of them learned  their theology at under 
Doug's tutelage.  The website gives  special attention to Doug and Roy Atwood.  
It's worth looking at - and  really, really, funny.  (Well funny to those of us 
who haven't had to  endure the consequences of abusive religious egomaniacs run 
amuck.)
 
 _http://rc-sproul-jr.125mb.com/index.html_ 
(http://rc-sproul-jr.125mb.com/index.html) 
 
Rose  Huskey

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight  you, then 
you win." Mahatma Gandhi
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