Who Said That?

"The proponents of directions of thought which were later rejected as heretical consider themlseves completely Christian--such as Christian Gnosticism.  In the beginning, faith is the term which distinguishes the Christian Congregation from the Jews and the heathen, not orthodoxy (right doctrine)."

Leave your guess in the comments section below.  Please, no google searches or cheating.

Update on Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 12:06PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is from Rudolf Bultmann's Theology of the New Testament (1955), 2.135.

Comments

[Paul L.]

1st guess: Bart Ehrman

2nd guess: Brian McLaren

[Clay]

Rudolf Bultmann?

[reg]

crossen?

[Steven]

I'm going to guess Bart Ehrman.

[John Sellman]

Christopher Hitchens

["lee n. field"]

"1st guess: Bart Ehrman
2nd guess: Brian McLaren "

Those would be my guesses as well. And you might add Karen Armstrong (so I hear).

[Mike Storey]

Because you just posted about the new B.B. Warfield book, B.B. Warfield, although the second part of that seems odd from what I know of him thus far.

[Neal P.]

Bart Ehrman

[Will]

Jack Van Impe