Fr. Dwight Longenecker interviews Anne Rice

First Things has posted an interview of Anne Rice by Fr. Longenecker. If you like reading conversion stories, are interested in Anne Rice’s artistic point of view, or just like reading about Catholic celebrities, this interview may interest you.

“As you did your research, what was your impression of modern biblical scholarship?

As I plunged into modern Bible scholarship, I assumed the skeptics would be right, but I soon discovered that their “late date” theories of gospel creation were flimsy, full of assumptions, and that a dislike of Jesus ran through many of their arrogant and pompous books. The field came across to me as a huge scandal. There were believers and non-believers claiming to be Jesus scholars, and the skeptics, the famous Jesus Seminar, had been throwing out some outrageous nonsense to get the attention of the public. I have never seen sloppier scholarship in any field of study than what I saw in so-called biblical scholarship.

I soon realized that the skeptical scholars had very little evidence at all of their extravagant theories and they were anti-supernaturalists…”

The full article, Interview with an Ex-Vampire Novelist, can be found at First Things website.