Tag Archives: David Hart

U-turns and Transcendentals

Posted on 2 March 2017 by

by Pastor Tom Belt I’m delighted to be back at Eclectic Orthodoxy – my home away from home. I’m always informed and challenged by the content and the company here. It’s like pulling a chair up to a warm hearth … Continue reading →

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Suffering, Theodicy, and Apokatastasis

Posted on 20 February 2017 by

“What then, one might well ask, is divine providence?” David Bentley Hart poses this question after pondering upon the evil and suffering of the world in his beautiful little book The Doors of the Sea. In the preceding eighty-one pages Hart compares the … Continue reading →

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Creation as Chaconne

Posted on 13 September 2016 by

by Pastor Tom Belt Bach’s Chaconne for Violin is 12 to 15 minutes of—well, forgive me for putting it this way—the eucharist ingested through the ears, a divine liturgy of pure music. I have well over a dozen recordings by different … Continue reading →

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Perfect Being Theology, Theistic Personalism, and the Eclipse of the Apophatic

Posted on 30 May 2016 by

Readers of this blog will by now be well-acquainated with the term “theistic personalism.” It was coined by Brian Davies to describe what he believes to be a problematic understanding of divinity, commonly advanced by analytic philosophers. He specifically names … Continue reading →

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Why Denial of Divine Simplicity Implies Atheism

Posted on 10 May 2016 by

For much of my theological life, I have not understood the notion of divine simplicity nor thought it important to understand. What has divine simplicity to do with the lively God of the Bible‽ Even after I began to read … Continue reading →

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God-damnation or Self-damnation?

Posted on 29 February 2016 by

“I am not going to try to prove the doctrine [of hell] tolerable,” writes C. S. Lewis in his book The Problem of Pain. “Let us make no mistake; it is not tolerable. But I think the doctrine can be … Continue reading →

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Theodicy, Hell, and David B. Hart

Posted on 27 January 2016 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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