I’m glad you’ve gotten something out of the writings of this Professor of Theology. When I’ve read him in the past I’ve found his lines of reasoning chaotic, his arguments unconvincing, and him to be uninformed about some of the matters he treats at length. But, perhaps more seriously, his comportment is inconsistent with someone who wants to be taken seriously. He often seems to be fighting personal battles against real or imagined enemies, rather than examining ideas. At times he descends into personal insults against people whose opinions he objects to. It’s here, too: look at the swipe against the imagined “village atheist” right off the bat—a phrase obviously intended to evoke the “village idiot”. He’s hard to take seriously for me, or even to tolerate beyond a few paragraphs.