Image: "Green Man" carving on a door pillar of the Kilpeck Church What do we make of this human face spewing thick and leafy branches from its mouth while its wide eyes stare out past us in apparent shock? Visual art and theology scholar Stephen Miller in The Green Man in Medieval England: Christian Shoots … Continue reading Astonishment and New Life: All of Us as the Green Man
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Our Fleshly and Our Spiritual Bodies According to David Bentley Hart
Dear reader, I have transcribed below a good bit that David Bentley Hart had to say recently about spiritual versus fleshly bodies in an interview with Larry Chapp from October 10, 2022. These points by Hart (that he has made many times and in many ways) are extremely confusing to people. Therefore, I’ve put together … Continue reading Our Fleshly and Our Spiritual Bodies According to David Bentley Hart
Slavery in Gregory of Nyssa as a Wound that We Inflict Upon Christ
In 2009, David Bentley Hart made bold claims about Gregory of Nyssa as the first in the ancient world to denounce slavery in utterly uncompromising terms. This was in Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies (Yale University Press). While Hart does not provide much by way of footnoting or defense in his … Continue reading Slavery in Gregory of Nyssa as a Wound that We Inflict Upon Christ
So they saw the resurrection of the world
From a medieval Irish text called The Evernew Tongue (Teanga Bhiothnua): This is what has driven me to youTo explain to you the wondrous taleWhich the Holy Spirit declaredThrough Moses son of AmramOf the creation of heaven and earth…As well as the formation of the worldWhich was made possibleBy Christ’s resurrection from the deadOn this … Continue reading So they saw the resurrection of the world
Christ’s Empty Grave in the Writings of David Bentley Hart
Does David Bentley Hart believe in the historical and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ? Does he think that the grave was empty on Easter morning? I have seen this question asked many times, and it’s not a surprise. For a few generations now, “radical theologians” of many varieties have questioned the historicity of Christ’s resurrection … Continue reading Christ’s Empty Grave in the Writings of David Bentley Hart
Jesus and the Ancient Paths 