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I chimed in on a discussion at Honey and Locusts<\/a> about \u201cinterspirituality\u201d. Since I know that there are readers of this blog interested in (and even organizing a blog conference about!) how Christians think theologically about other religions, some may want to take a look at what has been an interesting conversation so far, on but the first of what may be many posts in a series on this subject. As regular readers of this blog will know, I think it is crucial not only to look at what the Biblical authors wrote<\/em>, but what it meant for them to write such things in the context that they did. Tertullian, after all, rhetorically asked \u201cWhat has Athens to do with Jerusalem?\u201d but his actual theology shows that, for him in practice, even if he might deny it, they had a great deal<\/em> to do with one another.<\/p>\n