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I came across this today and couldn't be happier! I can't wait to see this discussion: Eclectic Shock - Reformation21 Blog & The Future of Protestantism | Davenant Trust
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I hope Trueman provides a sound historical critique to the caricatures of Protestantism provided within that article.Reading materials:
The End of Protestantism -- Peter Leithart
Content aside, am I the only person who finds Leihart's writing style to be horrendous. Also, I am unfamiliar with Sanders, who is he?Me too, that article was absolutely atrocious.
Content aside, am I the only person who finds Leihart's writing style to be horrendous. Also, I am unfamiliar with Sanders, who is he?Me too, that article was absolutely atrocious.
It's a well-known R.C. mag that occasionally has interesting articles.
Content aside, am I the only person who finds Leihart's writing style to be horrendous.
No, you are certainly not alone in coming to that conclusion.
I like Leithart only when he is writing on literature or something else and not directly on theology.
That's sad, it really is.To put it ridiculously mildly, it is a tad difficult now to defend Leithart as a bastion of confessional Reformed orthodoxy. He is not merely being creative, as his defenders have argued. He has gone rather further. Jason Stellman has said that the reason he swam the Tiber is that he was being convinced of Leithart's actual arguments!
I like Leithart only when he is writing on literature or something else and not directly on theology.
I would have to do more research than I am willing to do at the moment so please take this with a block of salt, but I found Mr. Leithart's approach to literature to be also somewhat 'creative' (though I think I dislike using that word to mean inaccurate: creativity is not supposed to work against the grain of truth). Something I remember reading on Jane Austen in particular seemed to be simply pulling a redemptive rabbit out of a hat (again, if I'm remembering correctly, and I'm ready to confess to a faulty memory . If JA meant to write something of a redemptive nature, she executed it very badly, which is unlike her. Just wanted to insert that accuracy with texts is also important in approaching literary works or we aren't appreciating the work itself and we aren't really being addressed by something outside of our own conceptions.
Content aside, am I the only person who finds Leihart's writing style to be horrendous.
No, you are certainly not alone in coming to that conclusion. Most stuff the Federal Visionists put out largely consists of ill-informed rhetoric, "cute" asides, and glib caricatures of things that they do not understand.