Sometime last week I noted the odd, rather disconnected criticism offered by Peter Leithart of my book, The God Who Justifies. At the same time I noted that the criticism comes out of the blue; it makes no attempt to establish a context, etc. As such, I simply said, “We will see what develops.” I had started to write a response, but wanted to wait to see if anything else developed (I do try, once in a while, to resist the “rush, rush, rush” mind-set that is prompted by our ever faster computers and ever faster phones and ever faster lifestyle: it took me a long time to write the book: I can wait a while to respond to a singularly bland and less than compelling criticism of the work). Well, I guess I didn’t bow properly toward Moscow, Idaho or something. Anymore, you don’t really have to do anything to set TGE off (which is more than a little troubling). In the midst of a truly rambling and overly long post, I encountered this:
- Yet in the course of only a few weeks a number of attacks on those Outside the
I guess if you say, “Does anyone really know what Leithart is saying” you are offering a “blunt insult” and you are, of course, “intellectually-fringe” (and do I detect some accusation of hyper-Calvinism as well?) I don’t know, but I really don’t get the feeling anything I would say in response to anything Leithart would say would get an overly fair review at Societas Christiana. 
Hey TGE, maybe you should keep the promises you have made repeatedly and remove yourself from a realm that obviously causes you no end of discomfort? It’s the Christmas season! Go sing the Messiah! Throw a snowball for me (no snowballs in Phoenix)! Make a snowman and name him something in Latin. Ask Doug Wilson how you can be so Calvinistic your molars hurt. Something! Just try to drop your blood pressure a bit, will ya?
