No Turning Back David Bentley Hart The German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk argues that the “psycho-political” arrangements that once sheltered us are now irretrievable. He’s right: the old...
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DAVID BENTLEY HART Three Cheers for Socialism Persons of a reflective bent all too often underestimate the enormous strength that truly abysmal ignorance can bring. Knowledge is power, of course,...
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BOOKS Misenchantment DAVID BENTLEY HART THE ENCHANTMENTS OF MAMMON How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity eugene mccarraher Harvard University Press, $39.95, 816 pp. Icome to praise...
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An Orthodox theologian on the controversy still rocking the Roman Catholic Church Divorce, Annulment & Communion David Bentley Hart As I am not a Roman Catholic, I cannot pretend to have any...
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David Bentley Hart Mind over Matter The Enneads Plotinus Edited by Lloyd P. Gerson Cambridge University Press, $150, 938 pp. What little we know about the life of Plotinus (ca. 204-270 CE)...
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ARTICLES Christians & the Death Penalty There Is No Patron Saint of Executioners David Bentley Hart By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment Edward Feser, Joseph...
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CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION Suggestions or Commands? AN EXCHANGE ON DAVID BENTLEY HART'S 'CHRIST'S RABBLE' Simeon Zahl Occasionally in today's ever-rolling stream of commentary you come up...
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ARTICLES Christ's Rabble The First Christians Were Not like Us David Bentley Hart For two and a half years I have been working on a translation of the New Testament for Yale University Press,...
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David Bentley Hart Our Atheism is Different Battling the Gods Atheism in the Ancient World Tim Whitmarsh Knopf, $27.95, 304 pp. Buried in the pages of this short, disappointing book is a...
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When St. Peter heard the cock crow early on the morning of the first Good Friday, the synoptic Gospels tell us that he went out and wept bitterly. "We are the heirs of a culture that, in a...
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