[Advanced notice: Please see one correction in a comment below from David Bentley Hart.] Robert Louis Wilken Two of Robert Louis Wilken’s wonderful books blessed me a few years ago (The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God and The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity). For another project recently, … Continue reading What of Hart’s Tradition and Apocalypse is Shared with Wilken’s The Myth of Christian Beginnings?
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David Opderbeck on David Bentley Hart’s Tradition and Apocalypse
Author note: We are grateful to Dr. Opderbeck for this review. He is Professor of Law at Seton Hall University Law School and also teaches in Seton Hall’s Department of Religion. In addition to his law degrees, he holds an MAT from Fuller Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in Systematic and Philosophical Theology from the … Continue reading David Opderbeck on David Bentley Hart’s Tradition and Apocalypse
David Bentley Hart’s Call to Inhabit Our Living Traditions
“‘Tradition’ …is the conviction that one has truly heard a call from the realm of the transcendent, but a call that must be heard again before its meaning can be grasped or its summons obeyed; and the labor of interpretation is the diligent practice of waiting attentively in the interval, for fear otherwise of forgetting … Continue reading David Bentley Hart’s Call to Inhabit Our Living Traditions
David Bentley Hart Introducing Tradition and Apocalypse with Dr. Philip Gonzales
This is a short and delightfully simple interview with David Bentley Hart by Dr. Philip Gonzales (on the philosophy faculty at St Patrick’s Pontifical University in Maynooth, Ireland and author of Reimagining the Analogia Entis: The Future of Erich Przywara's Christian Vision, 2019) in promotion of St Patrick’s Pontifical University's upcoming conference on "The Future … Continue reading David Bentley Hart Introducing Tradition and Apocalypse with Dr. Philip Gonzales
A Look at Apocalypse: What is Eternal and What Future Creates Us?
Fr. John Behr says in a 2019 lecture that our distinction between the uncreated (the triune God) and the created (all else) is not the primary distinction made within reality by the apostles. The primary distinction in reality assumed by the scriptures and the apostles was between the invisible realm (which includes God as well … Continue reading A Look at Apocalypse: What is Eternal and What Future Creates Us?
Jesus and the Ancient Paths 