David Bentley Hart Interview - The New Testament - A Translation

[@julesjgreig]

Very good, thank you.

[@Portekberm]

Great version

[@MrBradHendrickson]

@24:17 "It's got an interesting title: 'The New Testament'"

[@sebastianmelmoth685]

I do wish he'd designed a better cover. I'd have done it for free. Americans desperately need books like these. Most Americans hate this translation due to the absence of their favourite word: "homosexual".

[@kazimierzmalewicz3604]

Sebastian Melmoth Personally, I actually like the cover a lot. Kind of minimalist, but I like the coloring, the simple crossed nails

[@vampireducks1622]

Why is "homosexual" their favourite word?

[@elijahbachrach6579]

VampireDucks he means that American Christians in particular treat sexual sins as though they were the most loathsome of moral atrocities. Among some groups their ire towards homosexuality specifically can reach such a fever pitch that they forget to extend love, companion and pity towards the sinner. This is a shame when you consider both the sins of greed within our culture that often go unchallenged and the tortured state of the genuinely homosexual. Anyway, he is referring to American Christianity’s special obsession with the sin of homosexuality.

[@mattjbg7025]

The contemporary Christian obsession with sex, sexuality and identity was a foreign concept to the early church. It hobbles the truth of the message, that message which transcends corporal matters. God loves us, gay, straight, etc. The Word is revolutionary and will disrupt your world if you truly hear it.

[@seankennedy4284]

@@mattjbg7025 "God loves us, gay, straight, etc" Without question this is correct. But neither does he condone sin.

[@AuditoryStorytelling]

"Not every letter in the New Testament that bears his (Paul's) name was written by Paul". This common hypothesis put forth by "scholars" (such as Hart) is what's going to erode Christianity from the inside.

[@joachim847]

I think about this too sometimes. We can't ignore good historical scholarship but its also absurd to suppose the early church didn't know what they had, or what they were talking about.

[@youngpilgrim5]

Why? If it was Paul or a school of Paul-trained thinkers, why does it matter? Both could be divinely inspired, rightfully belonging in our scriptures. We don't require other New Testament books to be directly authored by apostles (Mark, Luke, Hebrews...).

[@joachim847]

@@youngpilgrim5 This is what I think too.

[@youngpilgrim5]

And to say "that's what's going to erode Christianity from the inside" is a bit dramatic... How about compromising our devotion to Christ for the sake of nationalism, consumerism, and entertainment culture? How about the Western Church turning a blind eye to all the texts that require extreme Christian ethics of all true disciples (eg Matt 25)? How about compromising the core of the gospel in an allegiance to theological deformations like the prosperity gospel, Calvinism, etc..?

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