David Bentley Hart

American author, theologian, and philosopher · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1965 · age 61

David Bentley Hart is an American philosopher, theologian, essayist, fiction author, and religious studies scholar. He is the author of twenty-four books, as well as over one thousand essays, reviews, and papers. From a predominantly Anglican family background, Hart became Eastern Orthodox when he was twenty-one.

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2020“Americans are, of course, the most thoroughly and passively indoctrinated people on earth.”In their wordsCitationRead the whole statement

2005“The cross of Christ is not, after all, simply an eternal validation of pain and death, but their overthrow.”In their wordsChapter 2, Location 666Read the whole statement

2003“Christ is a persuasion, a form of evoking desire... Such an account [of Christ] must inevitably make an appeal to beauty.”In their wordsp. 3Read the whole statement

“Beauty crosses every boundary, traverses every series, and so manifests the God who transcends every division.”In their wordsp. 21Read the whole statement

“Creation's being is God's pleasure, creation's beauty God's glory; beauty reveals the shining of an uncreated light.”In their wordsp. 252Read the whole statement

1965Born20 February 1965

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David Bentley Hart and Roland, the title character in Roland in Moonlight (2021)

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The final encounter with God, or an encounter with God that would take you beyond doubt, wouldn't have the character of a metaphysical proof.
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His academic works focus on Christian metaphysics, philosophy of mind, Indian and East Asian religion, Asian languages, classics, and literature as well as a New Testament translation. Books with wider audiences include The Doors of the Sea, Atheist Delusions, The Experience of God, That All Shall Be Saved, Roland in Moonlight, A Roland Colonnade, and All Things Are Full of Gods.

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