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In a little under six hours, my next article will be arriving in your inboxes and on my Substack page. Here I simply want to alert you to the transcript of a conversation between myself and Michael Robbins that has just appeared in the online edition of Commonweal. A shorter version will, in all likelihood, appear in the print edition ere long. Both versions, however, are shorter and a bit more lucid than the actual unedited recording of the conversation, which will appear on this site in the not distant future, as well as on the YouTube channel of Leaves in the Wind (just established, free to everyone, but as yet quite devoid of content).
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A new article coming, a transcript and a new DBH YouTube channel. Could this day get any better?
It would seem Ed Feser wasn't pleased as he boldly proclaims- "Hart tells us that “Christians have always betrayed Christianity, and they have always misunderstood it.” So how, pray tell, is anyone supposed to know what Christianity is? Hart has elsewhere rejected the idea that tradition can tell us. He also rejects, of course, the Catholic idea of an authoritative magisterium. He evidently thinks that scripture is not decisive either, since he has condemned the conception of God conveyed in some biblical texts. And now the sensus fidelium is out too. Apparently, for Hart Christianity is just whatever David Bentley Hart says it is. But of course, Hart is hardly more authoritative than scripture, tradition, magisterium, or the sense of the faithful. Do the math."
He then paraphrased the Humpty dumpty scene in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, but incorporated you into it.
"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean." David Bentley Hart said in a rather scornful tone "Neither more or less." Alice responds "The question is, whether you can make words mean so many different things?" David Bentley Hart retorts: "The question is, how am I to be master-That's all."
Personally I thought this was a rather pleasant conversation. But that's just my opinion.