Question

1. Prothero thinks that being religiously literate is a good thing. Explain what he means by religious literacy and give me your interpretation of why he thinks so.

Answer 1

Religious literacy is understanding and interpreting the religious texts without any outside help.

Explanation:

Stephen Prothero is one of the leading religious scholars in the US who derives his thought from the tenets of Protestantism as Martin Luther envisioned it.

One of the biggest tenets is for a person to understand and work their own religion. All religious people must know and understand their texts and be able to interpret it by themselves without any outside help being needed.

This is to prevent god men and scholars to take over their religious practices and being able to be professing their religion.