Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of Christianity -that can be called in the fullest sense a "revolution": a truly massive and epochal revision of humanity's prevailing vision of reality, so pervasive in its influence and so vast in its consequences as to actually have created a new conception of the world, of history, of human nature, of time, and of the moral good.
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining priso… - David Bentley Hart
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining priso…
- David Bentley Hart
For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and death, it would seem that he provides … - David Bentley Hart
For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and death, it would seem that he provides …
Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that… - David Bentley Hart
Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that…
The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so many modern person… - David Bentley Hart
The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so many modern person…
I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity or of religion in general. But… - David Bentley Hart
I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity or of religion in general. But…
The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the dir… - David Bentley Hart
The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the dir…
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of oth… - David Bentley Hart
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of oth…
Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pil… - David Bentley Hart
Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pil…
But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the m… - David Bentley Hart
But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the m…
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