David Bentley Hart
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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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The cross of Christ is not, after all, simply an eternal validation of pain and death, but their overthrow.
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Christ is a persuasion, a form of evoking desire... Such an account [of Christ] must inevitably make an appeal to beauty.
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Beauty crosses every boundary, traverses every series, and so manifests the God who transcends every division.
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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. 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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