Category Archives: David B. Hart

The Polemics of Perdition: David Bentley Hart and his Critics

Posted on 6 January 2020 by

It’s been four months since David Bentley Hart’s That All Shall Be Saved was published, and the internet is now littered with reviews (ten available on this blog). As one might expect, the responses have varied dramatically, from the enthusiastically approbative … Continue reading →

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Theodicy, Hell, and David Bentley Hart

Posted on 15 November 2019 by

by Brian C. Moore, Ph.D. In his recent blog post “The Morality of Gehenna,” Father Lawrence Farley defends the com­patibility of traditional notions of hell with the Goodness of the Christian God. His voice is certainly not inhumane. He recognizes … Continue reading →

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Manoussakis and his Pear Tree

Posted on 7 November 2019 by

by David Bentley Hart John Panteleimon Manoussakis has written a “review” of That All Shall Be Saved: “Salva­tion à la Hart.” I did not find it to be germane to my book when I first saw it, and so had … Continue reading →

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Faith, Reason, and Moral Sensibility: One Catholic’s Reflection on ‘That All Shall Be Saved’

Posted on 5 November 2019 by

by Ty Monroe, Ph.D. Chose étonnante cependant que le mystère le plus éloigné de notre connaissance qui est celui de la transmission du péché soit une chose sans laquelle nous ne pouvons avoir aucune connaissance de nous-mêmes. Car il est … Continue reading →

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A Most Peculiar Story: Paradiso

Posted on 16 October 2019 by

by Brian C. Moore, Ph.D. In his Unspoken Sermon, “The Inheritance,” George MacDonald recalls the fifth canto of Dante’s Paradiso where the souls in the sphere of Mercury first sight the newcomers and cry out “Ecco chicrescera li nostri amori!” … Continue reading →

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A Most Peculiar Story: The Freedom of God and Saints

Posted on 15 October 2019 by

by Brian C. Moore, Ph.D. Some have accused the Australian writer, Gerald Murnane, of a kind of autism. It may be that his method is little more than an idiosyncratic phenomenology, though I suspect there is something more. I cannot … Continue reading →

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A Most Peculiar Story: Judging Judgment Rightly

Posted on 14 October 2019 by

by Brian C. Moore, Ph.D. The story is false if you get God wrong. If you get God wrong, you are sure to misunder­stand the nature of judgment. Though folks often don’t think too deeply about it. “It’s too much,” … Continue reading →

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