Review (Part Two): The Experience of God — Being, Consciousness, Bliss, by David Bentley Hart

In part one, we considered Hart’s explanation of what it is meant by “God,” in order to avoid the distraction of puerile attacks on straw-man stand-ins for the real God. In this post, we consider Hart’s discussion of the philosophical backdrop against which his argument will be received. This will help us to avoid prejudices that we […]

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Review (Part One): The Experience of God–Being, Consciousness, Bliss, by David Bentley Hart

This book is a rare find.  Hart eloquently puts forward what is fundamentally wrong with the materialist point of view that lures so many into a blinkered perception of reality. Part One:  “God” The Straw Man Here we consider the first of the theses Hart pursues:  that the new atheist argument against God is a […]

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