“if one understands what the actual philosophical definition of “God” is in most of the great religious traditions, and if consequently one understands what is logically entailed in denying that there is any God so defined, then one cannot reject… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“regarding the reality of God, one must recall that what one is seeking is a particular experience, one wholly unlike an encounter with some mere finite object of cognition or some particular thing that might be found among other things.… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 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
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
