Webdavidbentleyhart .substack .com. With his essay style, Hart has often referenced H. L. Mencken as an influence. Book: The Bitcoin Standard - Saifedean Ammous (Part 2/3) Listen now (40 min) | Government-issued fiat money is destroying your life's work. Wilson as his November 2021 Book of the Year for the Times Literary Supplement. Next. 62 Dr. David Bentley Hart on his Substack newsletter "Leaves in the Wind" and, of course, Frank Robinson. 108 David Bentley Hart responds to claims of heresy by Fr. Otherworlds" with David Bentley Hart Let me explain. He said in a 17 November 2020 interview about a pre-release reading of his book You Are Gods: At the end of the day, Im a monist as any sane person is. William Placher said of the book, "I can think of no more brilliant work by an American theologian in the past ten years. Book: The Bitcoin Standard - Saifedean Ammous (Part 2/3) Listen now (40 min) | Government-issued fiat money is destroying your life's work. David Artman August 4, 2021. St. Gregory of Nyssa), Pseudo-Dionysius, St. Maximus the Confessor, Isaac of Nineveh, Eriugena, Meister Eckhart, St. Symeon the New Theologian, Nicholas of Cusa, St. John of the Cross, St. Bonaventure, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Kant, William Blake, Hegel, Vladimir Solovyov, Dostoevsky, George MacDonald, Nietzsche, Pavel Florensky, Karl Barth, Martin Heidegger, Erich Przywara, Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Rowan Williams, Rumi, Ramanuja, Shankara, Maimonides, Ibn Arabi, Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi, Animism, Bah, Dharmic religions (esp. In one way, at least, he is the least American of writers, in that adjectives and adverbs do not give him that twinge of guilt that so many of us have picked up from Hemingway and Twain, the suspicion that we are using them to distract the reader from our failure to describe some particular action or detailsome verb or nounprecisely enough. ", This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. [71][72], As indicated by the wide range of topics covered in his essays, Hart has an interest in a diverse range of topics: baseball, Ancient Greek philosophy, patristics, Byzantine philosophy, Catholic theology, Comparative religious studies, Eastern philosophy, Eastern religions, Gnosticism, Hellenistic Judaism, historical criticism, Medieval philosophy, metaphysics, mysticism, myth, The Dreaming, fairies, perennialism, philosophy of mind, theological aesthetics, and world literature.[73].