David Bentley Hart

“God, understood in this proper sense, is essentially beyond finite comprehension;”

— David Bentley Hart

The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient…

— David Bentley Hart

“It is only because a dreamer has temporarily lost the desire to turn his eyes toward more distant horizons that he believes…

— David Bentley Hart

“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

“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

Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the…

— David Bentley Hart

physics explains everything, which we know because anything physics cannot explain does not exist, which we know because whatever exists must be…

— David Bentley Hart

“[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

“Physical reality cannot account for its own existence for the simple reason that nature—the physical—is that which by definition already exists; existence,…

— David Bentley Hart

“It is certainly the demiurge about whom Stenger and Dawkins write; neither has actually ever written a word about God.”

— David Bentley Hart

“Lyotard has described the postmodern condition succinctly as "incredulity towards metanarratives":' an attitude commendable in itself, no doubt, but also one that…

— David Bentley Hart

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

“All our modern “scientistic” presuppositions may tell us that mind must be entirely a mechanical function or residue of the brain’s neuronal…

— David Bentley Hart

Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how…

— David Bentley Hart

“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

“God is thus experienced as that bliss in which our natures have their consummation because that bliss is already, in God, the…

— David Bentley Hart

“To translate a text is to be conducted into its mysteries in a way that no mere act of reading—however conscientious or…

— David Bentley Hart

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every…

— David Bentley Hart

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.

— David Bentley Hart

“In another sense he is “being itself,” in that he is the inexhaustible source of all reality, the absolute upon which the…

— David Bentley Hart

“One realizes that everything about the world that seems so unexceptional and drearily predictable is in fact charged with an immense and…

— David Bentley Hart

“Men will always seek gods in whose name they may perform great deeds or commit unspeakable atrocities, even when those gods are…

— David Bentley Hart

“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

“the modern secular state's capacity for barbarism exceeds any of the evils for which Christendom might justly be indicted, not”

— David Bentley Hart

Yet the most pervasive error one encounters in contemporary arguments about belief in God-especially, but not exclusively, on the atheist side-is the…

— David Bentley Hart