Last week I talked about our letters to the editor section and invited letters. Thank you for answering the call! Some of you will see your words in our forthcoming October issue. (Note: I always want to hear your responses to our articles; send them by email to [email protected].)
I anticipate another letters-to-the-editor barn burner since we recently released another extremely polarizing piece. It has already torn Twitter (or whatever was left of it) in half. It is an interview with theologian David Bentley Hart, by CC contributing editor Ross Allen. In the conversation—which covers Christian metaphysics, philosophy, doctrine, and more—Hart refers to Paul Tillich as “a joke,” to Rudolf Bultmann as Protestantism “reaching its reductio ad absurdum,” and to the Catholic tradition of “two-tier Thomism” as “morally inferior to Satanism.” DBH is not one to pull punches.
The Barbie movie has also instigated some very interesting conversations, which is the theme of our new Screen Time article from Kathryn Reklis. And if you’re looking for even more apple carts to be overturned, Sam Wells reviews a book by John Haught that levels criticism at “the majority of cosmologists today.” Plus a lot of other great content below!
Email me: If you could pick one person for the Century to interview, who would it be and why?
“In its theological traditions and historical embodiments, much of what is called Christianity is philosophically incoherent at a radical level and self-evidently false.”
“John Haught’s exemplary argument offers a dynamic and assertive response to religion’s scientific despisers—but throws down a gauntlet for conventional theology also.”
“What’s rarely discussed when recalling the throngs that assembled on the National Mall on August 28, 1963, is the nervousness of the White community at the time.”
by Peter W. Marty, on the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington
