I'm fairly confident it is true, though. While you won't hear such things said, they definitely won't advise you on a "History of Christianity" reading list. T

I'm fairly confident it is true, though. While you won't hear such things said, they definitely won't advise you on a "History of Christianity" reading list. Try talking to a Jesuit priest. Their knowledge of these sorts of things will astound you, and they'll be only too willing to share it. Rabbis, too, so I hear. Your average American evangelical preacher? Well, maybe not -- they don't come from the same sort of academic tradition.