For many Christians, the existence of God is self-evident, reconfirmed in a thousand ways, and so there’s a tendency not to spend too much time on the introductory course, the “why I know there’s a God 101” course. It’s good to do so, however. Let’s consider now the purpose and design we instinctively impute to […]
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Review (Part Three): The Experience of God — Being Consciousness Bliss, by David Bentley Hart
Being Wonder Hart has set the stage for his discussion of being, consciousness, and bliss, and now we start with being; by which he means the astonishing fact of existence of anything. All serious thought, Hart says, begins in a moment of “unsettling or delighted surprise.” Hart describes it as a “primordial agitation of the mind.” That […]
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