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In 1994, a group of forthright [[atheists]] started the Journal of Higher Criticism<ref name=JHC>[http://www.atheistalliance.org/jhc/index.htm Journal of Higher Criticism] at the [[Atheist]] Alliance. Has multiple additional links.</ref> and billed it as "a forthright attempt - in a time of scholarly neo-conservatism - to hark back to the bold historical hypotheses and critical interpretations associated with the great names of F. C. Baur and Tübingen." The phrase "scholarly neo-conservatism" is probably an attempt to link an apparent renewal of belief in [[God]] with a resurgence of ''political'' conservatism in the [[United States]] that culminated in a sharp reversal-of-fortunes of the two major political parties in the Federal Election of 1994. This Journal ceased publication in 2003, but the original site is still an active domain and has a recent (2007) copyright notice.
In 1994, a group of forthright [[atheists]] started the Journal of Higher Criticism<ref name=JHC>[http://www.atheistalliance.org/jhc/index.htm Journal of Higher Criticism] at the [[Atheist]] Alliance. Has multiple additional links.</ref> and billed it as "a forthright attempt - in a time of scholarly neo-conservatism - to hark back to the bold historical hypotheses and critical interpretations associated with the great names of F. C. Baur and Tübingen." The phrase "scholarly neo-conservatism" is probably an attempt to link an apparent renewal of belief in [[God]] with a resurgence of ''political'' conservatism in the [[United States]] that culminated in a sharp reversal-of-fortunes of the two major political parties in the Federal Election of 1994. This Journal ceased publication in 2003, but the original site is still an active domain and has a recent (2007) copyright notice.
=== Biblical criticism understood to support Christian supernatural beliefs ===
The Catholic church gave its approval to some forms of Biblical criticism in its 1943 ''[[Divino Afflante Spiritu|Divino afflante spiritu]]'' issued on the fiftieth anniversary of ''[[Providentissimus Deus]]'', which had actually condemned the use of [[higher criticism]]. Two catholic scholars who help usher in the 1943 and later acceptance were the [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] [[Marie-Joseph Lagrange]] and the [[Jesuit]] [[Augustin Bea]]. Notable Protestant biblical scholars also holding Christian supernatural beliefs include [[Arthur Peake|A. S. Peake]], a member of the [[United Methodist Church]], and [[William Robertson Smith]], a member of the [[Free Church of Scotland]]. <ref> [http://books.google.com/books?id=udr0HQAACAAJ The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought], 2000, [[Oxford University Press]], page 298, ISBN 0-1986-0024-0 </ref>
== Textual criticism ==
== Textual criticism ==