“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
