Books written by David Bentley Hart

Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

But to suppose that this is suflicient explanation for the ultimate triumph of Christianity, or that the new faith would have merely lingered on as an obscure and insignificant cult but for Constantine's victory at the Milvian Bridge, ...
The Story of Christianity

The story of Christianity is an immeasurably fascinating one.
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth

... unwittingly aided me in the preparation of this book's final draft : Martin Bieler , Brian Daley , Paul Griffiths , Reinhard Mutter , P. Travis Kroeker , R. R. Reno , Philip Rolnick , Janet Soskice , and Carver Yu .
The New Testament: A Translation

5But the Judaeans [who did not have faith]— becoming jealous and bringing along some loutish men from among the idlers in the marketplace, and gathering together a horde—set the city in riot and, marching to the household of Jason, ...
Plough Quarterly No. 21 - Beyond Capitalism

Also in this issue: poetry by Jane Tyson Clement; reviews of books by Jennifer Berry Hawes, Robert Macfarlane, Emily Bazelon, and John Connell; and art and photography by Wassily Kandinsky, N. C. Wyeth, Deborah Batt, Kari Nielsen, Chris ...
Tradition and Apocalypse: An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief

In this carefully argued essay, David Bentley Hart critiques the concept of "tradition" that has become dominant in Christian thought as fundamentally incoherent.
Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

Religious scholar Hart argues that contemporary antireligious polemics are based not only upon conceptual confusions but upon facile simplifications of history and provides a powerful antidote to the New Atheists' misrepresentations of the ...
The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?

In The Doors of the Sea David Bentley Hart speaks at once to those skeptical of Christian faith and to those who use their Christian faith to rationalize senseless human suffering.
In the Aftermath: Provocations and Laments

This collection of essays, reviews, and columns published in popular journals and newspapers over the past few years comprise observations on culture, religion, and society at large--the virtuosic prose that readers expect from Hart.
Theological Territories: A David Bentley Hart Digest

Throughout, these essays show how Hart's mind works with the academic veneer of more formal pieces stripped away. The book will appeal to both academic and non-academic readers interested in the place of theology in the modern world.
Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

Religious scholar Hart argues that contemporary antireligious polemics are based not only upon conceptual confusions but upon facile simplifications of history and provides a powerful antidote to the New Atheists' misrepresentations of the ...
The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?

Developing his short piece in the "Wall Street Journal" following the horrific recent Asian tsunami, Hart again takes up this pressing question: How can the existence of a good and loving God be reconciled with such suffering?
Tradition and Apocalypse: An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief

In this carefully argued essay, David Bentley Hart critiques the concept of "tradition" that has become dominant in Christian thought as fundamentally incoherent.
That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation

In this momentous book, David Bentley Hart makes the case that nearly two millennia of dogmatic tradition have misled readers on the crucial matter of universal salvation.
You Are Gods: On Nature and Supernature

The book also offers a vision of Christian thought that draws on traditions (such as Vedanta) from which Christian philosophers and theologians, biblical scholars, and religious studies scholars still have a great deal to learn.
The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss

In a wide-ranging response to this confusion, esteemed scholar David Bentley Hart pursues a clarification of how the word "God" functions in the world's great theistic faiths.
Roland in Moonlight

Woven through all this is a candid memoir, a story of loss and recovery, of personal trials and tribulations, with Roland "leading the way through the darkened rooms and the sporadic shafts of icy moonlight, his mottled coat a constantly ...
The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?

In The Doors of the Sea David Bentley Hart speaks at once to those skeptical of Christian faith and to those who use their Christian faith to rationalize senseless human suffering.
In the Aftermath: Provocations and Laments

(For those whose curiosity runs to the macabre, Wesley Smith's recent Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World provides a good synopsis of the transhumanist creed.) Obviously one is dealing here with a sensibility formed more 141 The ...
You Are Gods: On Nature and Supernature

In its merely controversial aspect, the book is intended most directly as a rejection of a certain Thomistic construal of that relation, as well as an argument in favor of a model of nature and supernature at once more Eastern and patristic ...