Talk:Philosophy of Religion

Religion is, necessarily, a very personal enterprise in human experience. It's subjective content is as important as the objective; therefore, I see the Discussion pages as an integral part of the Theology textbook series. I encourage discussion, debate, even exploration of emotions experienced about topics.

Especially, I encourage contributors to the main text to present a short biography in the Discussion pages. We all have biases and they are, perhaps, more relevant to a discussion of religion than to most fields of discourse. I hope to invite people from various religions to critique my content so that an accurate presentation of various schools of religious thought may be obtained. I would like to be kept "honest".

My name is Payton Wolf Bailey VanZandt. I am a Christian fundamentalist, in the old sense of the word. I hold that the Bible is fundamental to the Christian religion - that it is inerrant, primal, intensive, and extensive in respect to the Christian faith; that it is an effective agent in the salvation of Humanity and a positive agent of social change; and that its interpretation, although many leveled, is literal except where it itself indicates otherwise. In practice, I am an evangelist and have studied the scriptures for about 30 years and have made it a point to have some familiarity with other religions that I may come in contact with.

By secular vocation, I am a vocational evaluator and am trained in the sciences and especially in the areas of sociology and psychology with an emphasis on research and statistics.

By culture and, perhaps, by nature, I am a Wolf Therian and have a shamanic viewpoint of the world. This month, at the inception of this work, I am 53 years old and a resident of the Southeastern United States. WolfVanZandt 05:27, 20 July 2006 (UTC)