Then I studied theology in college, and when I was getting a Ph.D. in literature, I took courses in New Testament studies and studied Greek versions of the Gospels.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.
I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.
When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.
My degree in theology was an important part of my formation.
I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.
I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.
By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.
Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.
By the time I had got to college, I had begun to read and had decided that most of what Christians believed could not be credible. So I became a philosophy major at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.
I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.