Comments on: Most Brilliant Christian Professors?

By: Mada Okstok

Mada Okstok — Wed, 12 May 2010 05:02:18 +0000

I know, I know Zizek is an “atheist,” but really hid atheism is the truest form of theism as he kills the gods of metaphysics and liberates us to serve the cruciifed god of Holy Saturday.

Also, Milbank sucks.

That is all.

By: JB in CA

JB in CA — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:18:54 +0000

Mada Okstok: Žižek is a brilliant Christian professor? I think you’re a little confused.

By: JD

JD — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:34:07 +0000

George Marsden, historian at Notre Dame
Vern Poythress, Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia)

By: Mada Okstok

Mada Okstok — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:51:19 +0000

Missing from this list are:

Žižek
Adam Kotsko
Anthony Paul Smith
Kim Fabricus
Ben Meyers
Halden Doerge

Needing to be expunged from anyone’s list (and perhaps the face of the earth): John Milbank.

Thank you, that is all.

By: Geddy L.

Geddy L. — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:58:37 +0000

Scott Moringiello, Villanova University

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 10 May 2010 09:43:07 +0000

John Finnis (Oxford and Notre Dame Law School)

By: Pseudodionysius

Pseudodionysius — Mon, 10 May 2010 03:50:04 +0000

Professor Thomas Hibbs, now at Baylor, for important work on film and cinema as evangelization of popular culture combined with first rate work on Aquinas. Also, being named as the first Catholic to head a school at a Baptist university (and a big one at that) is no small accomplishment.

By: JAB

JAB — Mon, 10 May 2010 02:41:53 +0000

Frank Beckwith

By: John W

John W — Sun, 09 May 2010 17:29:58 +0000

Eamon Duffy has singlehandedly turned our conceptions of the Reformation on its ear, and not in the sort of Romantic way that Huizinga did so long ago. His work also points the way or charts a course for those who will write the critical analyses of the destruction of popular piety after Vatican II.

John Bossy deserves an Honorable Mention in this field, but he is dwarfed by Duffy’s greatness.

By: David C

David C — Sun, 09 May 2010 14:39:33 +0000

It seems to me that the whole Lewis thread introduced above is an exercise in missing the point. Lewis seems to have been dismissive, or at least found humorous, the fact that a group of American Christians would problematize the relationship between Christianity and the life of the mind.

A list is posted of some folks ideas about Christians who excel at demonstrating a faithful life of the mind in Christian terms and the CS Lewis story is used to problematize the list?

My guess was that the irony is unintended so to misquote the Princess Bride. I don’t think that story means what you think it means.