Christianity & Its Fashionable Enemies
Aside from Peter Kreeft, this man is likely the premier living theologian on the planet, and one to watch. David Bentley Hart gives your lecture this week. Enjoy:
The Good Is Not Absent…
it is merely quiet and goes unnoticed most of the time – as anyone who has experienced the unnoticed goodness of an unpresuming silent saint knows… Evil is not greater than good, it simply makes more noise. Indeed, suffering has a way of dominating our attention and warping our normal perception of things, for it…
DetailsChristians, Lighten Up!
Some of this was pretty clever:
Love & Tragedy
A dangerous and paradoxically true discussion occurs in The Brothers Karamazov, between Aloysha and Ivan. Forgive my extensive quotation of Ivan as an introduction to my smattering of thoughts… “What do I care that none are to blame and that I know it — I need retribution, otherwise I will destroy myself. And retribution not…
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An Analogy of the God
The most unknowing responses to the cosmological argument for the existence of God (flying spaghetti monsters, Zeus, and Thor; “who created God?”) are probably just as likely to stem from theistic misinterpretations of what God is than from actual ignorance of the argument being made – irritating as they may be. Feser knocks it out…
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