David Bentley Hart is a philosopher, theologian, writer, and cultural commentator who has taught at the University of Virginia, Duke University, and the University of Notre Dame. His other books include The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth; A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays; and Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, which was awarded the Michael Ramsey Prize in Theology in 2011.
National Review
"David Bentley Hart has written one of the most thrilling works of
Christian reflection to come along in years. . . This is theology
as high adventure, and the excitement continues after the last page
is turned." William C. Placher in The Christian Century
"I can think of no more brilliant work by an American theologian in
the past ten years." R. R. Reno
"An elegant, erudite treatment of basic themes in Christian
theology, metaphysics, and contemporary cultural criticism. David
Bentley Hart has written a book that is both radical and orthodox.
The Beauty of the Infinite sets the standard for postmodern
theology." Paul J. Griffiths
"David Bentley Hart's book shows great patristic and philosophical
learning. That is rare enough. Still more rare is the book's
compellingly complete theology of beauty. Hart shows that the
sublime aesthetic of the market -- this age's chief principality --
can be disrupted by (and perhaps only by) the gospel's radiant
beauty. This book makes a major contribution to bringing that
disruption about." Reinhard H�tter
"Drawing from deep Eastern Orthodox wells, The Beauty of the
Infinite achieves an extraordinary theological analysis and
transformation of the postmodern condition. A work of breathtaking
scope, David Bentley Hart's book combines an impressive mastery of
the Christian theological tradition, East and West, with a subtle
yet rigorous critique of the philosophical zeitgeist, culminating
in a constructive systematic theology of stunning scope. By way of
a trinitarian theology of beauty, Hart succeeds in composing a
dogmatica minora that radically revises the metaphysical horizon of
postmodernity. This book is Christian theology and metaphysics of a
high order, an extremely rewarding tour de force." R. Trent
Pomplun
"David Bentley Hart -- like Soloviev and Florensky before him --
stands in the finest tradition of virile Eastern alternatives to
modern Western philosophy and theology. A startling rejoinder to
modernity and postmodernity alike, Hart's book will be judged by
future historians as a fresh start for Orthodox theology done in
the United States." Geoffrey Wainwright in First Things
"A remarkable work. . . This magnificent and demanding volume
should establish David Bentley Hart, around the world no less than
in North America, as one of his generation's leading theologians."
John Milbank
"David Hart is already the best living American systematic
theologian. The Beauty of the Infinite is his first major work."
Janet Martin Soskice in Times Literary Supplement
"A splendid book. . . Hart's prose is trenchant but often
beautiful. There are penetrating, and frequently amusing, critiques
of Foucault, Bultmann, and Deleuze, among others. . . The Beauty of
the Infinite shows the vigor and power of theology, ancient and
modern." Nova et Vetera
"Despite the relative youth of its author, The Beauty of the
Infinite merits consideration as one of the most ambitious and
theologically insightful contributions to the field in the past
decade. David Hart's fluid prose, sweeping grasp of theology and
continental philosophy, and creativity enables him to ferry the
reader from eastern patristic theology to French postmodernism,
from Greek Attic tragedy to Nietzsche and Heidegger. His work
deserves a careful reading by all serious students of theology."
The Journal of Religion
"On every page of The Beauty of the Infinite are provocative and
original readings. Hart debunks many unexamined pieties nascent in
the postmodern idiom and, at the same time, displays his own genius
for rhetorical invention. Hyperarticulate and a great phrasemaker,
Hart will please the logophile as well as the philologist; his
erudition . . . and his eloquence . .
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