{"id":3584,"date":"2019-09-27T10:41:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T10:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/27\/the-intellectual-chutzpah-of-david-bentley-hart\/"},"modified":"2019-09-27T10:41:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T10:41:15","slug":"the-intellectual-chutzpah-of-david-bentley-hart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/27\/the-intellectual-chutzpah-of-david-bentley-hart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Intellectual Chutzpah of David Bentley Hart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a> (HT: Karl White):<\/span><\/p>\n

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Let me, however, add one more observa\u00adtion that will seem insufferably pompous or a little insane: to wit, that the argument I make in my book\u2014that Chris\u00adtianity can be a coherent system of belief if and only if it is understood as involving universal salvation\u2014is irrefutable. Any Christian whom it fails to persuade is one who has failed to understand its argument fully. In order to reject it, one must also reject one or another crucial tenet of the faith. The exits have all been sealed. I suppose I could be wrong about that, but I do not believe it likely. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hart seems not to have noticed that he embraces a logical contradiction when he says that the argument he has given is irrefutable AND that he could be wrong about that.  For if an argument is irrefutable, then it cannot be refuted; if, on the other hand, the producer of an argument can be wrong about whether it is irrefutable, then the argument can be refuted. Hence the contradiction: the argument cannot be refuted AND the argument can be refuted.<\/span><\/p>\n

But a man can be a pompous ass and a blowhard and still have interesting things to say. If you are interested in the question of universal salvation, see Douglas Farrow, Harrowing Hart on Hell<\/a> in First Things<\/em>. (HT: Dave Lull)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here (HT: Karl White): Let me, however, add one more observa\u00adtion that will seem insufferably pompous or a little insane: to wit, that the argument I make in my book\u2014that Chris\u00adtianity can be a coherent system of belief if and only if it is understood as involving universal salvation\u2014is irrefutable. Any Christian whom it fails … Continue reading “The Intellectual Chutzpah of David Bentley Hart”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,543,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heaven-and-hell","category-soteriology","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}