Clip 7: Is there salvation in liberal theology? (Templeton Foundation)

[nsecchi]

You say no, I say yes. Now let me tell you my reason for saying yes: Bite me.

[purposefirst]

Robert Wright is terrifically insightful and about as unbiased as a person can get. Too bad he was interviewed by the world's worst interviewer! Douthat makes me believe that it may literally be possible to bore a person to death!

[mavinga]

@purposefirst I think it was a rather good dialogue, yeah he wasn't engaging in a traditional interview style, but what I like about it, is in the interviewer adding his own personal opinions and insight, it did make the overall discussion more illuminating and put Robert Wrights comments/answers in some kind of dialectal context...which is always a better way for people to learn what someone is saying and where they are coming from, than a traditional Q and A session

[pkingo1]

Besides the rambling and struggling to make a coherent point, the question he tried to ask was a rather good one..

[DISREGARDTHAT11meh]

5 minute long question lol

[DISREGARDTHAT11meh]

you call this an interview?

[kbs1138]

this is monologue by the interviewer, not a discussion.

"probably"  --- classic way to say you just vomited on me in so many directions that I would like to leave and take shower to forget the experience.

[kbs1138]

Ross Douthat please STFU!!!!!

[k166a]

Nice.

[Animalll2003lll]

lol Douthat, what a prick. Wright's ideas are very interesting and his books very down to earth. Douthat is really in a wacky vibe. like quasi post modernist 'talking shit/ pointing out (invented) inconsistencies' vibe. it's bla bla with semi-mean remarks about how the book is 'simplistic'. really a bad interviewer. typical bullshit meany self-indulgent pseudo-'intellectual' style :)

[LeahCepukas]

The final question was, I believe, if Wright was declaring that Jesus was human and did not resurrect , therefore negating the notion of salvation, is there another possibility for salvation or do Christians have to abandon that idea? If the lure of Christian membership was salvation and Wright's theory removes that, is there a replacement grand enough to entice continued christian membership? I enjoyed the answer. The humility of "I don't know" will endear readers to his new book.

[rationaldreaming]

Well, it was worth watching for the laugh at the end -- perfect answer (in terms of length anyway). Liberal theology does the exact same job for liberal Christians as does conservative theology for conservative Christians -- i.e it confirms and reaffirms their religious worldview, nothing more, nothing less.

[fungiblefilms]

blah blah, granted, blah, therefore, blah, pedagogy, ontological, blah, epistemology of the divine, blah... and so on...

[SuperBravoOne]

This is a good example of how not to explain/answer/ask something. I had to put all three, since I had no idea what he was doing or talking about.

[thormn8]

Jesus Christ, save me from your chatterbox followers.

[Volvo745T]

hahahaha!

[etagloh]

That's Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist, thinking that he's paid by the word to speak, and showing all the coherence and clarity required of someone who produces 700-word pieces once a week.