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
Tag: Hart
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
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?
On Monism and Becoming Uncreated in Hart’s You Are Gods
On December 14, 2022 the Notre Dame Department of Theology co-hosted a conversation between Catholic theology professor Jennifer Newsome Martin and David Bentley Hart focused on Hart's book You Are Gods. It contained some helpful material for better understanding this book which Hart claims is a fairly simple and even obvious articulation of Eastern patristic … Continue reading On Monism and Becoming Uncreated in Hart’s You Are Gods
David Bentley Hart on Hell, American Orthodoxy, and Going Out of His Way to Provoke
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 … Continue reading David Bentley Hart on Hell, American Orthodoxy, and Going Out of His Way to Provoke
Time, the Christ Child, and a Good Chat with Nate Hile at Grail Country
This post is really just a place to store away a few things for myself quickly that came to mind after a delightful conversation yesterday morning with Nate Hile at Grail Country. I don’t have time to develop these thoughts, but I want to drop them in one place where I can find them again … Continue reading Time, the Christ Child, and a Good Chat with Nate Hile at Grail Country
Jesus and the Ancient Paths 