Shed a tear, fellow backsliders! What promised to be a good old raucous theological scopes tnai has already fizzled into a nonevent. The great Hartford heresy hunt has labored mightily and brought forth nothing more than a limp list of thirteen “themes” no sane theologian would want to defend, plus an equal number of refutations, which (except for the closing quotation from St. Paul) sound nearly as flaccid as the themes themselves. The latter-day defenders of the Faith have succeeded where Torquemada failed; they have made even polemics dull. In the halcyon days of old the guardians of orthodoxy at least stuck live villains in the stocks and consigned real books to the Index.