Intersection Segment | The Jefferson Bible
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
By: Amy Green

Nov. 30, 2011 | WMFE - A decade after Thomas Jefferson left office as the nation's third president he began work on a personal project, compiling excerpts from the four gospels of the Bible's New Testament into a book that removed supernatural aspects of Jesus' story. The project came to be known as the Jefferson Bible. The Smithsonian Institution recently published the bible. This week on "Intersection" 90.7's Mark Simpson talked with a panel of religious leaders and scholars about the meaning and impact of Jefferson's biblical revisions. Kathy Schmitz, minister of First Unitarian Church of Orlando, and Rollins College religion professor Creston Davis joined the conversation. Reverend Joel Hunter, senior pastor at Northland Church in Longwood, started by examining what happens to Christianity if miracles like the virgin birth and resurrection are removed from the faith.

Photo: Thomas Jefferson