Name David Hart | ||
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Books The Experience of God: B, Atheist Delusions, The Doors of the Sea: Where W, The Beauty of the Infinite: T, The Story of Christianity | ||
David bentley hart vs richard norman
David Bentley Hart (born 1965) is an American Orthodox Christian philosophical theologian, cultural commentator and polemicist. Engaging heavily with classical, medieval and continental European philosophical systems as well as with Dharmic, biblical and patristic texts, his works have addressed topics ranging from ontology and comparative mythology to theological aesthetics and existentialism.
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- David bentley hart vs richard norman
- David Bentley Hart Interview The New Testament A Translation
- Academia
- Awards and reception
- Patristics
- References
David Bentley Hart Interview - The New Testament - A Translation
Academia
Hart earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland, his Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge, and his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Virginia. He has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), Duke Divinity School, and Loyola College in Maryland. He served as visiting professor at Providence College, where he also previously held the Robert J. Randall Chair in Christian Culture. During the 2014-2015 academic year, Hart was Danforth Chair at Saint Louis University in the Department of Theological Studies. In 2015, Hart was appointed as Templeton Fellow at the University of Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study.
Awards and reception
On 27 May 2011, Hart's book Atheist Delusions was awarded the Michael Ramsey Prize in Theology. Hart's latest book, The Experience of God, The Guardian called "the one theology book all atheists really should read".
Patristics
As a patristics scholar, Hart is especially concerned with the tradition of the Greek Fathers, with a particular emphasis on Gregory of Nyssa and Maximus the Confessor. His writings on such figures are distinctive in that they are not cast in the mold of typical patristics scholarship; Hart is quite willing, for instance, to use Maximus as a "corrective" to Martin Heidegger's "history of Being". The emphasis is very much on ideas and "deep readings", which seek to wrest from ancient texts insights that might fruitfully be brought into living contact with contemporary questions.
Hart's work is controversial in some respects, and he has his critics, particularly among Protestant thinkers in the Reformed theological school. His defense of the classical doctrine of divine apatheia, of the analogia entis, and other aspects of the Christian intellectual tradition are all worked out within the web of his own thought and elicit extensive debate. Issues of the Scottish Journal of Theology and New Blackfriars have devoted special space to his work.
As a cultural critic, Hart appears conservative in many respects, but his politics are difficult to define. On a number of occasions he has called himself an "anarchist monarchist", and he is frankly censorious of liberal capitalism.