David Bentley Hart

Reproducing the New Testament's often fragmentary formulations without augmentation or correction, David Bentley Hart has produced a pitilessly literal translation, one that captures the texts' impenetrability and unfinished quality....

In this provocative book one of the most brilliant scholars of religion today dismantles distorted religious "histories" offered up by contemporary critics of religion and advocates of atheism....

In a blossoming garden located far outside all worlds, a group of aging Greek gods have gathered to discuss the nature of existence, the mystery of mind, and whether there is a transcendent God from whom all things come. Turning to Eros, Psyche asks, "Do you see this flower, my love?"

Despite the recent ferocious public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discussion "God" frequently remains vaguely and obscurely described....

A stunning reexamination of one of the essential tenets of Christian belief from one of the most provocative and admired writers on religion today....

In recent years, the theological question of the supernatural has made an astonishing return from seeming oblivion. David Bentley Hart's You Are Gods presents a series of meditations on the vexed theological question of the relation of nature and supernature....

In this carefully argued essay, David Bentley Hart critiques the concept of "tradition" that has become dominant in Christian thought as fundamentally incoherent....