“It may well be that, when Christianity passes away from a culture, nihilism is the inevitable consequence, precisely because of what Christianity… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“it is only that Christianity expressly forbids the various evils that have been done by Christians, whereas democracy, in principle, forbids nothing… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pilate, rose… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Most of us would find Christians truly cast in the New Testament mold fairly obnoxious: civically reprobate, ideologically unsound, economically destructive, politically… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Many of today's most obstreperous critics of Christianity know nothing more of Christendom's two millennia than a few childish images of bloodthirsty… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“No single theologian writing in Greek or Syriac in the patristic period exercised an influence in the Christian East comparable to that… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“For if indeed God became a man, then Truth condescended to become a truth, from whose historical contingency one cannot simply pass… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“. . . [Nietzsche] had the good manners to despise Christianity, in large part, for what it actually was--above all, for its… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“What makes today’s popular atheism so depressing is neither its conceptual boorishness nor its self-righteousness but simply its cultural inevitability. It is the final,… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share
“The claim that there cannot be an infinite regress of contingent ontological causes raises a truly difficult challenge to pure materialism; but to imagine… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share
“The very notion of nature as a closed system entirely sufficient to itself is plainly one that cannot be verified, deductively or empirically, from… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share
“naturalism, alone among all considered philosophical attempts to describe the shape of reality, is radically insufficient in its explanatory range.” — David Bentley Hart Copy Share
Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and a new… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share
“clarity is a precious thing, to the degree it can be achieved, if only because it can spare us the effort of needless boring… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former. — David Bentley Hart Copy Share
“We trust, that is to say, that there is no substantial criterion by which to judge our choices that stands higher than the unquestioned… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share
For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and death, it… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share
“All things are subject to time, moreover: they possess no complete identity in themselves, but are always in the process of becoming something else,… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share
true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share
“It goes without saying that one generally should not try to dissolve disparate creeds into one another, much less into some vague, syncretistic, doctrinally… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share
God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word concerning all… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share
“The general argument from the contingent to the absolute, or from the conditioned to the unconditioned, is a powerful and cogent one. No attempt,… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share
“Simply said, one is contingent through and through, partaking of being rather than generating it out of some source within oneself; and the same… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share
![“. . . [Nietzsche] had the good manners to despise Christianity, in large part, for what it actually was--above all, for its devotion to an ethics of compassion--rather than allow himself the soothing, self-righteous fantasy that Christianity’s history had been nothing but an interminable pageant…” quote by David Bentley Hart](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c74/david-bentley-hart-4691_christian-faith_nietzsche-had-the-good-manners-to-despis_745509.jpg)
