true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“if one understands what the actual philosophical definition of “God” is in most of the great religious traditions, and if consequently one… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“between mind and world, rather than just a fortuitous and functional liaison forged by evolution—then there are many philosophical questions that the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“the only ideological or political factions that have made any attempt at an ethics consistent with Darwinian science, to this point at… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Naturalism is a picture of the whole of reality that cannot, according to its own intrinsic premises, address the being of the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“In the age of the mechanical philosophy, in which all of nature could be viewed as a boundless collection of brute events,… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
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“. . . [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
“Materialism is a conviction based not upon evidence or logic but upon what Carl Sagan (speaking of another kind of faith) called… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“The general argument from the contingent to the absolute, or from the conditioned to the unconditioned, is a powerful and cogent one.… — 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
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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)
