Anyone who enjoys watching a couple of erudite blowhards flame each other will find this to be high-octane entertainment indeed. Both dudes are deeply learned, of course. That they've greatly benefited from the US church's appetite for swallowing whole any pronouncement spoken (or, in Hart's case, written) with a British accent shouldn't be held against them -- but, I confess, I do. Hey, Johnny Rotten's got the accent and is a wanker of the first order -- you're in highly esteemed company, Perfessers! Long may the flaming continue.
"Let's begin with the Synoptics, shall we?" |
And Hart would probably clap palms to scalp in dismay, but that's pretty much what I'm getting from his POV on Paul as well. In any case, where Wright is working to encourage and uphold, Hart is working to rekindle the provocation of the original texts, and sow a little holy mischief in the process -- and I'm kinda diggin' it. More later, perhaps.
Links: Christianity Today coverage.
3 comments:
Little bit of a tangent — but I had had this Eugene McCarraher item from a few years ago open in a tab for some days when you put this one up, and was glad to be reminded here of your ‘GKC’ posts. Hard to give this stuff the sustained attention it deserves (this one McCarraher article by itself took me another week, I think), but I continue to process.
Huh. What a lovely, surprisingly hopeful essay. Romantic, even.
Nathan's interview with DBH is quite a treat, btw. "The NIV translation is as much the Bible as West Side Story is Romeo & Juliet."
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