The continuing saga of Christian civilization (the encyclopedia)

In an earlier entry, I said that the statement of Susan Spilka of Wiley-Blackwell, the publisher that had allegedly destroyed the first print run of the four volume Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization in order to eliminate Christian content, left her looking like a smooth talking bureaucrat who could not be believed. Now philosopher Edward Feser, who wrote about the matter at National Review Online, has received a note from Susan Spilka responding to his article, and he also finds her to be obfuscatory. For example, in reply to the charge by the Encyclopedia’s editor George Kurian that the first edition had been pulped, or, alternatively, that Wiley-Blackwell had told him they were going to pulp it, Spilka says that this is not true, because no “decision” had been made to pulp it.But, as Feser points out, Spilka doesn’t actually say that it wasn’t pulped and that no one at Blackwell had told Kurian that they were going to pulp it.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 24, 2009 06:26 AM | Send