David Bentley Hart

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David Bentley Hart (* 1965 in Maryland , USA ) is an American Orthodox theologian and philosopher. His areas of expertise are philosophical theology, religious studies , Christian metaphysics, Asian religions, patristics and aesthetics .

Life

Hart studied at the University of Maryland near Baltimore , the University of Cambridge in England and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville .

He has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of St. Thomas at Saint Paul , Minnesota , Duke University at Durham , North Carolina , Providence College , Providence , Rhode Island, and St. Louis University . From 2015 to 2017 he was a Fellow at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend .

Teaching

In 2011 he was awarded the £ 10,000 Michael Ramsey Prize for his book Atheist Delusions . In this book, Hart explained in an elegant, detailed and convincing manner that materialism is not a fact of experiments and the conclusion of logic , but a metaphysical theory and ultimately a prejudice. Freedom would be reduced to the power to rule over nature. Christians - especially in early Christianity - would have reflected human nature in all its dimensions better, filled it with more constructive ideals and exemplified it with more helpful deeds. If there ever was a dark age, it wasn't the Middle Ages, but ours. A world of disbelief is dominated by self-adored narcissists, as Friedrich Nietzsche described the last person. This sink into banality, conformity, cynicism and self-admiration. If man is no longer viewed as a creature of God, then it becomes possible to fill the human future with any ideals such as revolutionary ideas, eugenics, nationalism and even dictatorship.

2019 appeared with All shall be saved - Heaven, Hell & Universal Salvation (German: All must be saved - heaven, hell and universal salvation ) another work of Hart, which because of its propagated Heilsuniversalismus in the wake of the Church Fathers Origen , Gregory of Nyssa and Other groups in church history received both approval and opposition.

Works

  • The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth , Wm. B. Eerdmans , Grand Rapids 2003.
  • The Doors of the Sea , Wm. B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids 2005.
  • The Story of Christianity: An Illustrated History of 2000 Years of the Christian Faith , Quercus, London 2007.
    • The History of Christianity: Faith, Church, Tradition , National Geographic, 2010. ISBN 978-3-86690-189-6 (translation: Ute Mareik)
  • In the Aftermath: Provocations and Laments , Wm. B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids 2008.
  • Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies , Yale University Press, New Haven 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-16429-9 .
  • The Experience of God. Being, Consciousness, Bliss , Yale University Press, New Haven 2013, ISBN 978-0-30016-684-2
  • All shall be saved - Heaven, Hell & Universal Salvation , Yale University Press, New Haven 2019, ISBN 978-0-30024-622-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Bentley Hart at the University of Notre Dame
  2. ^ David Bentley Hart: Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-16429-9 , Chapter 9: An Age of Darkness
  3. ↑ Douglas Farrow: Harrowing Hart on Hell , website firstthings.com, October 2019
  4. ↑ https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300246223/all-shall-be-saved
  5. ↑ Michael McClymond: David Bentley Hart's Lonely, Last Stand for Christian Universalism, A Review of That All Shall Be Saved , The Gospel Coalition, October 2, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hart, David Bentley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Orthodox theologian, philosopher, religious scholar, and patristician
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Maryland , USA