Introduction
The empathy wars seem to have some staying power. It was around seven years ago that Joe Rigney set the whole thing off within Reformed circles when he sat down with me for an interview on the pilot episode of Man Rampant. The reaction was not slow in coming and revealed that this was not a controversy about “nothing.” There is far more going on here than the preference of some people for the prefix em, and others for the prefix sym.
But before a clash of ideas like this happens, there usually needs to be some awareness of the issues in order for anyone to notice them and point them out. At the same time, it is also the case that the ongoing controversy can be increasingly revelatory. Once the issue is joined, despite the fog of controversy, some things can actually be clarified. Additional issues come tumbling out, or known issues click together with other known issues such that the whole picture gets a lot clearer.
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