On November 3, 2022, I had an opportunity to interview David Bentley Hart in person for content that I have largely shared as a mini-course (about 1.5 hours altogether) called “David Bentley Hart: Commentary on the Liberal Arts, Civilization, and the Future of Christianity” in connection to my work as the director of ClassicalU.com. There is a fun three-minute trailer along with a few free preview mini-lessons, but you will need to purchase a subscription in order to watch everything. If you have not read it, I reflected briefly here at the time on my experience of having a meal with Hart and interviewing him. (And Hart kindly shared this work here at his Leaves in the Wind.)
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That being said, I did not use all of the interview content from Hart in the ClassicalU.com mini-course. Here is about ten minutes of additional content from Hart covering three topics: 1) American Orthodoxy, 2) why he often goes out of his way to provoke, and 3) his vision of hell:
The interview was great thanks again and to be frank philly isn’t that bad a place to be born,it has good food.
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