It felt like Hero's Song did its utmost to hit every fantasy cliche down to the cast: the humble gardener, the tomboy archer, the bard, the elf, the old wizard as the mentor, the bad guys who are
absolute evil without any nuances.
Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically
evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to
absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of
evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..
Regardless, and
without any check on him at all, it's all presented with the veneer of dark and
evil forces at work, and as
absolute truth and «support» for all his implied and / or expressly stated allegations.