on Christian bloggers as would-be Figgistorians, James Alexander's contribution to a Brill monograph on J Neville Figgis accidentally nailed nearly the entire Anglo-American Christian blogosphere

I’m afraid that in order to make the point I intend to make that I have to open up with an extravagantly long quote from James Alexander in a book published by Brill (edited by Paul Avis) on the life and work of the Anglican historian and priest John Neville Figgis.  So, without further ado, here we go:

Alan Jacobs contra Ross Douthat on Douthat's public Christian intellectuals of our time--Douthat keeps picking as Christian intellectuals people who heap contempt on everyone who differs with them (Hart comes to mind)

There's a bit of set up for this one by way of quotation.