Transcriber’s note: Thank you for the permission from both David Artman (with the Grace Saves All podcast) as well as his guest David Bentley Hart to transcribe this episode in full and to post it here. This podcast episode 113 is a delightful listen, and I recommend that you find it on your favorite podcast … Continue reading Full Transcript of “Ep. 113 David Bentley Hart responds to Alan W. Gomes critique of That All Shall Be Saved” from David Artman’s Grace Saves All
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Hart’s Laughing Witch Hazel Tree
David Bentley Hart tells the story of a tree that he saw shaking with laughter and that sent him running away in fear as a boy of about seventeen. This is from "A Conversation Between Salley Vickers and David Bentley Hart" posted to Leaves in the Wind on November 7, 2022 (between minutes 52:38 and … Continue reading Hart’s Laughing Witch Hazel Tree
A Chat about Reading, Walking, David Hart, and Various Qualities of Angelic Light
This is an audio recording of a conversation that took place over a video conference call with a friend who I've known primarily in an online forum for those who love David Bentley Hart. He is a young professional living in London who has blessed me tremendously with his many reading recommendations and incisive comments. … Continue reading A Chat about Reading, Walking, David Hart, and Various Qualities of Angelic Light
Animal Suffering and What Christopher Southgate Missed
I'm only responding fifteen years late, but Christopher Southgate’s book The Groaning of Creation: God, Evolution, and the Problem of Evil (Westminster John Knox Press, 2008) was moving to me with its rare level of concern for animal suffering. It is a profoundly thoughtful book with many insights to recommend it. As my title suggests, … Continue reading Animal Suffering and What Christopher Southgate Missed
Precisely the Thing that Led to the Secularization of Culture
On his Leaves in the Wind newsletter, David Bentley Hart recently posted a video chat with the essayist Ed Simon, in part because Hart so admired Simon's book Binding the Ghost: Theology, Mystery, and the Transcendence of Literature the last chapter which ("Binding the Ghost: On the Physicality of Literature") almost cause Hart not to … Continue reading Precisely the Thing that Led to the Secularization of Culture
The “Pre-Cosmic Fall” of N. P. Williams
Sergius Bulgakov (1871 – 1944) N. P. Williams (1883 – 1943) In working on a new Wikipedia article about the idea of a meta-historical human fall, I noticed an interesting set of similarities between the concepts of two eminent Christian theologians publishing within the same year: one in English within the Anglican tradition and the … Continue reading The “Pre-Cosmic Fall” of N. P. Williams
ChatGPT: Art Without a Place or an Artist
Today, over lunch at work, I chatted briefly with a few friends who knew a good bit about the Microsoft investment in ChatGPT. We didn’t have a lot of time, but my friends made a case for ChatGPT as a tool that can serve and enrich human creativity. I was arguing that ChatGPT would dilute … Continue reading ChatGPT: Art Without a Place or an Artist
Skimming Through a Difficult Book: Angels, Archons, & Aliens by Ambrose Andreano
Book Cover (downloaded from Amazon.com) My friend Ambrose Andreano has published a difficult book called Angels, Archons, & Aliens: An Assessment of the Theological Implications and Psychological Impact of the Close Encounters Phenomenon that is now available as both a paperback and a Kindle ebook. I’ve enjoyed and appreciated Andreano’s thoughts on a wide variety … Continue reading Skimming Through a Difficult Book: Angels, Archons, & Aliens by Ambrose Andreano
What’s the Point of Being Christian?
My online friend, Maurice Mo Hagar II, recently passed a question along to me and several others. He first pointed to this example: If universal salvation is true, what’s the point of being Christian, of believing in Christ, getting baptized, belonging to the church… preaching the gospel, teaching the Bible, sending missionaries, and planting the … Continue reading What’s the Point of Being Christian?
Joy and Transfiguring Sorrow on this Feast of the Holy Innocents
The poet Christian Wiman notes, in Joy: 100 Poems, that “literature distinguishing between [happiness and joy] is extensive” and that “writers from Aristotle to C. S. Lewis have tended to draw a stark line.” With joy, Wiman says, “there is always an element of having been seized” by an outside force. Putting it into slightly … Continue reading Joy and Transfiguring Sorrow on this Feast of the Holy Innocents