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Tag Archives: David Hart
How Anthropomorphic is your G-O-D?
Confession time: for most of my parochial ministry, I was a theistic personalist, to use the term coined by Brian Davies. “Egads! Tell me that’s not true.” “Yes, I’m afraid so.” “But what is a theistic personalist?” “Someone who espouses … Continue reading
“I see no God up here”: Gagarin and the Invisible Gardener
After Yuri Gagarin’s famous flight into outer space, Nikita Khrushchev addressed a plenary session of the Central Committee and vigorously commended Communism’s campaign against religion: “Why are you clinging to God?” he asked. “Here Gagarin flew into space and didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged Antony Flew, atheism, Christianity, David Hart, fairies, God, Henry Veatch, invisible gardener, Richard Dawkins
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When Only Bad Arguments Are Possible: A Response to Diem (among others)
by David Bentley Hart In my last posting here, I confessed my bafflement at Edward Feser’s strange assertion that, when discussing the structure of rational freedom in That All Shall Be Saved, I do so in order to deny that … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, David B. Hart, Eschatology
Tagged culpability, David Hart, eternal damnation, free will, hell, That All Shall Be Saved
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Where is Everybody? Apokatastasis, Divine Charity and Human Freedom
by Richard Bernier, Ph.D. In the 2016 remake of the classic film The Magnificent Seven, a motley crew led by Sam Chisholm, played by Denzel Washington, is called upon to rid a town of a bullying tyrant. In an exchange … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Eschatology
Tagged apocatastasis, David Hart, eternal damnation, hell, universalism
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‘That All Shall Be Saved’: A Review of a Review of a Review
It’s not often that one comes across a review of a book review. Sometimes a journal or magazine will give an author the opportunity to respond to a critical review. Sometimes it will publish a second review that offers a … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, David B. Hart
Tagged apocatastasis, David Hart, eternal damnation, hell, Orthodoxy, That All Shall Be Saved, universal salvation
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The Holy Freedom of Sir Gibbie and the Gnomic Will
In his book That All Shall Be Saved, David Hart adduces the important distinction between the natural will and the gnomic will: In the terms of the great Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662), the “natural will” within us, which is … Continue reading
Apprehending Apokatastasis: The Necessary Choosing of the Good
Every human being is divinely ordered to God under the aspects of the transcendentals of being—the Truth, the Good, and the Beautiful. We hunger and thirst for union with him, for only in him can we enjoy supreme and overflowing … Continue reading
Apprehending Apokastasis: Human Being is Absolute Desire for God
Finally and at long last, we arrive at David Bentley Hart’s fourth meditation in That All Shall Be Saved. This is my favorite chapter of the book. It certainly is the philosophically meatiest and most challenging, which is probably why … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, David B. Hart, Eschatology
Tagged creator, David Hart, desire for God, eternal damnation, freedom, hell, our hearts are restless, universal salvation
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