David Bentley Hart on the Concept of God

David Bentley Hart on the Concept of God December 15, 2014

A gem from author and philosopher David Bentley Hart on the concept of God and the shallowness of today’s typical discussions:

“While there has been a great deal of public debate about belief in God in recent years (much of it a little petulant, much of it positively ferocious), the concept of God around which the arguments have run their seemingly interminable courses has remained strangely obscure the whole time. The more scrutiny one accords these debates, moreover, the more evident it becomes that often the contending parties are not even talking about the same thing; and I would go as far as to say that on most occasions none of them is talking about God in any coherent sense at all.” (The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, and Bliss, page 1)


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