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When a theologian of the stature of David Bentley Hart offers a “pitilessly literal translation” of the New Testament that is “not shaped by later theological and doctrinal history” and aims to make ...
Put the three together, and one has the beginning of the argument of David Bentley Hart’s remarkable book—part one a Milbankian treatise on theological method, part two a survey of the Trinity, ...
David Bentley Hart does not get out of bed in the morning to take on small projects. In his most recent volume (which is, as usual, mischievously polemical, dauntingly erudite, and verbose), he sets ...
The surprising aim, Hart tells us in his introduction, was to be as bare-bones and—where appropriate—unsqueamishly prosaic as he can. The New Testament, after all, is not a store of ancient ...
Last Thursday, I linked to an article at Commonweal by David Bentley Hart that I have not been able to get out of my mind. He relates how an illness allowed him to reflect more deeply on the New ...
This in a nutshell is the setting and the organizational premise, old and new all at once, of David Bentley Hart’s new book, All Things Are Full of Gods: The Mysteries of Mind and Life.
The newest member of this unique club is Orthodox theologian and scholar David Bentley Hart, who published his own translation of the New Testament last year. One notable scholar who does not ...
David Bentley Hart—an American Goethe who declared a few years ago that fiction writing is his greatest love—would likely prefer to see a review of his Prisms, Veils: A Book of Fables, which was ...
But for many it retains a psychological allure. By David Bentley Hart Dr. Hart is a philosopher, scholar of religion and cultural critic. Once the faith of his youth had faded into the serene ...