All David Bentley Hart Quotes
- Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience. End
- The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so many modern persons… All
- I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity or of religion… Admirable
- Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it… Authority
- Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former. Empiricism
- God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that… Agape
- Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison… Achieved
- Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pilate, rose from the dead… Believe
- But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the most willful and… Among
- Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace:… Agape
- For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and death, it would… Absolutely
- The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same. Account
- Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness,… Act
- The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the direction of all… Aim
- The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient order visibly insufficient… Absurd
- For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter,… Accomplice
- Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and a new model… Aesthetic
- 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 that… Aesthetic