Neuhaus versus Wright

`The bell and the can and the bodies on the floor.’  So goes a line from Mark Knopfler’s `Ode to Sonny Liston.’  Well, two heavyweight bruisers of more recent vintage are engaged in a slugfest  over at First Things: N T Wright and R J Neuhaus.   It’s fun to see Wright taking the `Hayek’s economics equals biblical Christianity’ brigade to task with his usual acerbic wit — more power to his elbow!! — but this is somewhat negated by the fact that, according to the Bishop, we can now add R J Neuhaus to the list of rather clever people apparently incapable of reading and understanding or reporting fairly anything written by NTW — someone who seems, on the surface, to write delightfully elegant and clear prose, accessible to all.  `Nobody understands me’ and `You’re all so unfair!!!’ used to be the complaints of choice of teenagers.  It seems that such claims have rather gone up in the world.  Read the exchange here.