“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 goes without saying that one generally should not try to dissolve disparate creeds into one another, much less into some vague,… — 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
“The major religions do, after all, boast some very sophisticated and subtle philosophical and spiritual traditions,” — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“it seems obvious that both the religious and the irreligious are capable of varying degrees of tolerance or intolerance, benevolence or malice,… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for… — 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
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
“God, according to all the great spiritual traditions, cannot be comprehended by the finite mind but can nevertheless be known in an… — 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
“Late modern society is principally concerned with purchasing things, in ever greater abundance and variety, and so has to strive to fabricate… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“[O]nly if the form of Christ can be lived out in the community of the church is the confession of the church… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“The contemplative seeks to be drawn ever more deeply into the circle of divine being, consciousness, and bliss, the circle of God… — 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
“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
“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
![“[O]nly if the form of Christ can be lived out in the community of the church is the confession of the church true; only if Christ can be practiced is Jesus Lord. No matter how often the subsequent history of the church belied this confession, it is this presence within time of an eschatological…” quote by David Bentley Hart](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dc4/david-bentley-hart-4691_body-of-christ_o-nly-if-the-form-of-christ-can-be-lived_1548160.png)
