One of the things about having an academic biblical studies background is that you can easily forget that not everyone else has gone through the JEPD/Wellhausen debrief and that the idea of historical critical interpretation can be shocking at first.
U2 frontman Bono exchanged Bible references and bantered about music, theology and evangelicals’ role in AIDS activism in a recent radio interview with Focus on the Family president Jim Daly.
Growing up in Ireland with a Protestant mother and a Catholic father, Bono imitated C.S. Lewis in “Mere Christianity,” where Lewis argued that Jesus was a lunatic, liar or Lord.