Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "David Bentley Hart" in English language version.
Hart's acuity on this theme aside, I welcome 'A Splendid Wickedness' for its thought and humor and spleen.
This note of self-aware hyperbole points to an essential part of the Hart persona; his writing voice is that of someone confident in his genius to a point of wanton, gleeful provocation. He knows his reader cannot meaningfully oppose him in even his wildest declarations. No one can, when he is writing in the Imperial mode. [From page 2:] The judgments that Hart renders constantly verge on the immoderate, and rarely does he make a point squarely without infusing a bit of accelerant. Under one aspect this habit is a needless indulgence, but under another, it's an act of generosity toward his readership. He has the good sense to pursue his maximalist impulses, knowing that they will lead him into his natural métier and enable him to consistently generate interest on the level of his individual sentences. [From page 3:] His intuition gallops across the range of human thinking and longing, mapped over decades of wild omnidirectional exploration, in search of examples and illustrations. ...His declarations over the history of ideas are cocksure, as full of gusto as his rages and raptures over cultural ephemera.
My remotest ancestors on this continent settled in Maryland in 1634, as titled freeholders under the sheltering canopy of a royal charter.
Author of thousands of essays, reviews, and papers, as well as 15 books including Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss, as well as That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation, not to mention an immaculate translation of the New Testament, Hart is often difficult for some people to categorize. What's agreed upon is that he's wide-ranging and deeply read in his seemingly limitless interests, and loquacious in his refreshingly baroque prose style; the rare theologian who can poetically invoke the 'glow of a gibbous moon set high in the sky, shining like a polished white opal on a bed of indigo velvet' or how a 'strong breeze was stirring the leaves in the high trees enclosing the grounds, and was shaking the branches of the lilac and oleander bushes bordering the path to the door ... ripples of silver ... coursing continually through the lawn's broad blades of fescue grass'.
Matthew Walther ...described Hart as the 'Prospero of Theologians' and 'our greatest living essayist' — an evaluation with merit.
Signature '000032 Dr. David Bentley Hart, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA'
No branch of the clan on either side managed to stretch out very far past the boundaries of Maryland between my forebears' arrival there in 1634 and the late 1970's... Well, apart from the Warfields, that is, on my mother's side, who spread out into Virginia and Pennsylvania, and whose most famous (or infamous) daughter, Wallis, became first Wallis Simpson and then Wallis Duchess of Windsor and who was, in consequence of the latter, indirectly responsible for Elizabeth II's reign of 70 years... But I am getting off track (and generally we do not boast about our distant relation to that particular Nazi-sympathizer).
Regional pride dictated that the tender souls of schoolchildren be regularly exposed to the works of H. L. Mencken.
[Kallistos Ware's] two most famous and influential books came early in his public career: The Orthodox Church (1963) and The Orthodox Way (1979). Neither has ever gone out of print. The latter was especially important to me when I read it in my teens. I had encountered the writings of the Eastern fathers by that point, but had not yet ever heard anyone speak of Orthodoxy in an idiom intelligible to my Anglican ears.
Reader: 'Do you really believe in fairies? Have you ever seen any'? Hart: 'Of course I believe in them'.
Should we favor the 'atemporal fall' view then? David Bentley Hart (Aug 31, 2022): Well, I certainly do. But the original Eden story isn't about the 'fall' at all, except in the vague sense that it was a mythic aetiology of life's miseries. Second Reader (Sep 2, 2022): Can you briefly describe what you understand or hold the 'atemporal fall' to be? Hart (Sep 2, 2022): No, not briefly. Second Reader (Sep 2, 2022): An extended response would, of course, be satisfactory also! But no, if you are aware of any particularly good reflections on it, I'd be grateful for a reference. Hart (Sep 2, 2022): Bulgakov, The Bride of the Lamb
He rehearses this argument in numberless witty variations against whichever non-God ideology happens to slouch beneath his pen. ...Unlike Chesterton—and this is how you know he's an early-21st-century guy, someone with Wi-Fi—Hart is extremely rude.
No branch of the clan on either side managed to stretch out very far past the boundaries of Maryland between my forebears' arrival there in 1634 and the late 1970's... Well, apart from the Warfields, that is, on my mother's side, who spread out into Virginia and Pennsylvania, and whose most famous (or infamous) daughter, Wallis, became first Wallis Simpson and then Wallis Duchess of Windsor and who was, in consequence of the latter, indirectly responsible for Elizabeth II's reign of 70 years... But I am getting off track (and generally we do not boast about our distant relation to that particular Nazi-sympathizer).
My remotest ancestors on this continent settled in Maryland in 1634, as titled freeholders under the sheltering canopy of a royal charter.
Regional pride dictated that the tender souls of schoolchildren be regularly exposed to the works of H. L. Mencken.
[Kallistos Ware's] two most famous and influential books came early in his public career: The Orthodox Church (1963) and The Orthodox Way (1979). Neither has ever gone out of print. The latter was especially important to me when I read it in my teens. I had encountered the writings of the Eastern fathers by that point, but had not yet ever heard anyone speak of Orthodoxy in an idiom intelligible to my Anglican ears.
Author of thousands of essays, reviews, and papers, as well as 15 books including Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss, as well as That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation, not to mention an immaculate translation of the New Testament, Hart is often difficult for some people to categorize. What's agreed upon is that he's wide-ranging and deeply read in his seemingly limitless interests, and loquacious in his refreshingly baroque prose style; the rare theologian who can poetically invoke the 'glow of a gibbous moon set high in the sky, shining like a polished white opal on a bed of indigo velvet' or how a 'strong breeze was stirring the leaves in the high trees enclosing the grounds, and was shaking the branches of the lilac and oleander bushes bordering the path to the door ... ripples of silver ... coursing continually through the lawn's broad blades of fescue grass'.
Matthew Walther ...described Hart as the 'Prospero of Theologians' and 'our greatest living essayist' — an evaluation with merit.
Hart's acuity on this theme aside, I welcome 'A Splendid Wickedness' for its thought and humor and spleen.
He rehearses this argument in numberless witty variations against whichever non-God ideology happens to slouch beneath his pen. ...Unlike Chesterton—and this is how you know he's an early-21st-century guy, someone with Wi-Fi—Hart is extremely rude.
This note of self-aware hyperbole points to an essential part of the Hart persona; his writing voice is that of someone confident in his genius to a point of wanton, gleeful provocation. He knows his reader cannot meaningfully oppose him in even his wildest declarations. No one can, when he is writing in the Imperial mode. [From page 2:] The judgments that Hart renders constantly verge on the immoderate, and rarely does he make a point squarely without infusing a bit of accelerant. Under one aspect this habit is a needless indulgence, but under another, it's an act of generosity toward his readership. He has the good sense to pursue his maximalist impulses, knowing that they will lead him into his natural métier and enable him to consistently generate interest on the level of his individual sentences. [From page 3:] His intuition gallops across the range of human thinking and longing, mapped over decades of wild omnidirectional exploration, in search of examples and illustrations. ...His declarations over the history of ideas are cocksure, as full of gusto as his rages and raptures over cultural ephemera.
Reader: 'Do you really believe in fairies? Have you ever seen any'? Hart: 'Of course I believe in them'.
"At minute marker 32:51".
Signature '000032 Dr. David Bentley Hart, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA'
At the 2:42 mark: Remind them, and this is absolutely vital, that fairies are real.
At the 1:56:39 mark: Believing in fairies, ...right now, that's got to be part of orthodoxy, that's got to go right into the creed.
"At minute marker 32:51".
