"But, in fact, materialism is among the most……" — David Bentley Hart
"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 (for want of a better word) magical in its logic, even if it has been in fashion for a couple of centuries or more."
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David Bentley Hart
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18 Quotes by David Bentley Hart
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Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.
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The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible…
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I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms…
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Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is,…
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Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor…
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God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a…
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Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not…
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Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius…
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Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that…
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For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering,…
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The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.
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Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of…
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