Hart, David Bentley

David Bentley Hart on the spirituality of the material world

David Bentley Hart on the nihilism of worshiping mere choice

David Bentley Hart on the loss of a recognition of inherent meaning in the natural world

David Bentley Hart defends the naturalness of religious belief against the assertions of the Naturalists

David Bentley Hart on the evasiveness implicit on all efforts to explain away human consciousness

Theologian David Bentley Hart discusses what Western people — both Christians and atheists — understand by the terms God, transcendence, being, and reality in modernity. (48 minutes)

FROM VOL. 122 David Bentley Hart discusses what is meant by “God” in contemporary apologetic debate among both atheists and Christians. (36 minutes)

Hear excerpts from interviews with Eric Jacobsen, Allan Carlson, R. R. Reno, Terence Nichols, David Bentley Hart, J.A.C. Redford, and Scott Cairns. (34 minutes)

Ken Myers draws on T. S. Eliot to argue that Western civilization has broken down, not into a multiplicity of cultures, but into a “post-culture.” (47 minutes)

David Bentley Hart argues that if it rejects Christ, the only remaining option for a post-Christian culture is conscious or “narcotic” nihilism, which takes the form of absolute, meaningless volition. (66 minutes)

FROM VOL. 124 R. J. Snell discusses how novel ideas about natural law focus less on moral propositions and concepts and more on the thrust for meaning and value. (27 minutes)

Ralph Wood compares Christopher Hitchens's view of the cosmos with that of G. K. Chesterton, arguing that Chesterton succeeded where Hitchens failed. (44 minutes)

FROM VOL. 98 This Archive Feature revisits two conversations, one with Roger Lundin and one with David Bentley Hart, on what makes Christian belief so implausible to non-believers. (39 minutes)

FROM VOL. 67 David Bentley Hart describes how the Christian understanding of Creation as beauty and gift, as the outward expression of the delight the Trinity has in itself, reveals a vision of reality different from the pagan or fatalist vision of reality. (12 minutes)

On the occasion of philosopher Daniel Dennett’s death this week, Ken Myers presents an archive interview with David Bentley Hart in which he explains how pure naturalism leads to the un-doing of rationality. (37 minutes)

David Bentley Hart on why Johann Sebastian Bach is the greatest of Christian theologians

FROM VOL. 155 David Bentley Hart on how “two-tier Thomism” deviates from historic Christian understanding of the relationship between God and Creation. (42 minutes)

David Bentley Hart on why we must believe that human beings are by nature inclined to the super-natural

Hans Boersma argues that we need to recover the pre-modern view that Creation not only points to God, but that it participates in the very being of God — that in God we live and move and have our being. (29 minutes)

FEATURED GUESTS: Donald Kraybill, Thaddeus Kozinski, David Bentley Hart, Nigel Biggar, Ravi Scott Jain, and Jason Baxter