"Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as……" — David Bentley Hart
"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 of human community, offering the 'peace which passes understanding' to a world enmeshed in sin and violence. (1)"
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18 Quotes by David Bentley Hart
David Bentley Hart has 18 quotes on this site.
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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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But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and…
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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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