[86][87] During a September 16, 2022 conversation with Rainn Wilson, Hart shared briefly about an indescribable past experience of his own on Mount Athos: I was in this state of spiritual despair, and I also had an encounter. Jacks problems are the opposite of Harts; he knows his niche too well. taylormertins.substack.com. 5 Then he placed those universalist cards on the table. Before reading it, it would help if youve already read my review and Harts reply. WebDavid Bentley Hart | Substack David Bentley Hart Author of books and shorter works in a variety of genres--treatises, essay collections, fiction, children's fiction, vignettes, verse--on a variety of topics--religion, philosophy, literature, the arts, politics, culture, baseball, and so forth. Let me explain. DAVID BENTLEY HART: Well, I definitely don't believe in an eternal hell, no. Nevertheless, your point is well-taken. [30], Hart added two books to his fiction works in 2021: Roland in Moonlight and Kenogaia (A Gnostic Tale). We have to draw some kind of working distinction between the perpetually valid symbol and the historically novel event, he remarks late in Roland in Moonlight (2021). I prefer to think of myself more as a scholar of religious studies, by the way, than a theologianand there are a lot of people who would prefer I call myself that, as well. So I understand both the difficulty of explaining it and the impossibility of forgetting it, at once, and how it can change your life. If Harts corpus were to be compared with that of Origens, then Tradition and Apocalypse is easily his Book IV of the De Principiis: the articulation of a comprehensive exegetical method not simply for reading Christian texts but the fact of Christianity itself. I show his arguments are fallacious. By letting civility happen, we take better care not only of others and of the world itself, but of ourselves. What challenges stand in the way? Let me explain. David Artman August 4, 2021. In an essay titled "A Person You Flee at Parties: Donald and the Devil" (about Donald Trump from May 6, 2011, for First Things), Hart concluded: Cold, grasping, bleak, graceless, and dull; unctuous, sleek, pitiless, and crass; a pallid vulgarian floating through life on clouds of acrid cologne and trailed by a vanguard of fawning divorce lawyers, the devil is probably eerily similar to Donald Trumpthough perhaps just a little nicer. His fiction includes The Devil and Pierre Gernet: Stories (2012) as well as two books from 2021: Roland in Moonlight and Kenogaia (A Gnostic Tale). He served as visiting professor at Providence College, where he also previously held the Robert J. Randall Chair in Christian Culture. You must have JavaScript enabled to use this form. the work raises for mean earlier draft of this review had, for example, a rather extended section on the historical Jesus and the question of how, given what we can reasonably say about who Jesus was on the basis of what data we have about his life, a futurist orientation towards the apocalyptic meaning of tradition affects not only our delayed sense of eschatology but even more basic concepts like what it is for Jesus to be messiah, a category that was a live one in his own day but, in the 21st century, has theological purchase with an absolute minority of world Jews; I had also intended some comments about the ecclesiological virtues of Christian communions like, say, Anglicanism which are committed to the idea of eventually disappearing as discrete structures into a supervening ecumenical unity in the future, and the possibility Hart treats towards the end that Christianity itself might find its inner rational coherence better explained by contextualization in another religious tradition altogether, or minimally with other religious traditionsbut they are possibilities that proceed from this basic sympathy with its argument and probably distractions on the whole from the real crux of the matter, which is that you should read the book. -52:26. Reading his nonfiction alongside his fictionwhich includes The Devil and Pierre Gernet: Stories (2012), The Mystery of Castle MacGorilla (2019), and the two books considered here, Roland in Moonlight and Kenogaia (both 2021)has made it clear to me that he wasnt kidding. As an Episcopal priest with friends and colleagues who have left the Episcopal Church to join the Orthodox Church, the Anglican Ordinariate, and ACNA, I'm familiar with the voices which loudly proclaim that any pastoral and/or intellectual openness, at least around certain contested theological questions, is a sure sign of timidity and unbelief. -52:26. But it doesn't come as a set of instructions. Hart's frustration with the reactionary Christians of today is understandable, but unfortunately it has led to his forfeiture of sound scholarship. Facebook. Next. This must be true, to a point. Maggie Haberman's book shows how Donald Trumps New York experience set the context for his odd and sometimes dangerous presidential style. [Pounce] Hes stopped making distinctions. David Bentley Hart (born 1965) is an American writer, philosopher, religious studies scholar, critic, and Orthodox theologian noted for his distinctive, humorous, pyrotechnic and often combative prose style. "[58] Archbishop Alexander Golitzin of the Orthodox Church in America recorded a public interview on January 14, 2022, in which he named Hart's book That All Shall Be Saved and said that it "draws upon some very prominent and worthy and holy teachers" in the early church who held that the "love of God will ultimately overcome the capacity of the creature to say no to God." Where does he find a moment to floss, to do housework, to keep up with his beloved Baltimore Orioles? Being is expressed as fully in its train of effects, its little ripples and frills, the words that rise to consciousness long after it passes by us, as anywhere else. David Bentley Hart He charges at everybody as though that person were an old friend brought back from the dead. There is no Realer Real hiding in bare nouns and verbs behind the scrim of our perceptions and feelings. David Bentley Hart Angelico Press $24.95 | 386 pp. This assent is hard-won for me. (It even anticipates his reading of the Garden of Eden story as one in which an insecure God tries to stifle the growth of his creatures.) Reading the book gives one a powerful sense of how gnosticism and love of this world and its creatures hang together for Hart. davidbentleyhart.substack.com. But yeah, the book is about Christian universalismabout not only its history, but its logic. FREE PREVIEW. [37], On May 27, 2011, Hart's book Atheist Delusions was awarded the Michael Ramsey Prize in Theology by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. 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. This just distracts from examining the serious consequences of his own views. I confess that I have of late struggled not so much with my commitment to Christ, who remains the great love of my life, but with my specifically Christian identity. But yeah, the book is about Christian universalismabout not only its history, but its logic. Let's hope David's new book serves to further that blessed conversation. For many of us, there are varieties of Christianity that we would sooner lose our faith than adoptthe Christ of the Westboro Baptist Church, e.g., is so corrupted that one is nearer to God almost anywhere elsebut people rarely put the point as straightforwardly as Hart does, and in a way that suggests a personal and possibly shifting ranking of religions. Ep. Its fundamental argumentthat the traditional concept of tradition as a metaphysical force in all surviving post-Christendom Christianities, Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and the various Protestant communities is incoherent, that a workable concept of tradition is however necessary for Christianity to be what Christians claim it to be, and that the only possible such concept will be one that is oriented primarily towards the futureis one that I already believed, but could not have put as well and would not have thought to put, but also in succession to John Henry Newman and Maurice Blondel. In the last decade, I have belonged, in a serious way, to every major Christian communion, especially to Anglicanism, Orthodoxy, and Catholicism; in the latter two, despite a strong desire to make them work, I found that my life in community and the real obstacles I was facing to it were both predicated on my near-perennially expressed commitment to institutions and concepts of authority that, apart from being incoherent, were simply irrelevant to the real challenges of making religion work for something other than my own ego, during the pandemic, and in the generally secularizing world of the second and early third decades of the twenty-first century. Over at Substack, David Bentley Hart has written an open letter in reply to my recent review, at Public Discourse, of his book You Are Gods: On Nature and Supernature . What follows is my own open letter in response. Thousands of paid subscribers Leaves in the Wind Thank you, David, for this reflection. [41], Roland in Moonlight was chosen by A.N. by david bentley hart baker academic, 208 pages, $24.99 David Bentley Hart was once the darling of postliberal theologians for his brilliant books on divine beauty and the illogic of atheism. Clause follows clause like the folds in a voluminous garment, every noun set off by beguiling and unusual modifiers (plus some of his old favorites, like beguiling). I am starting a subscription newsletter on Substack, dedicated to all the topics that fascinate me, in all the genres in which I typically write. I long for the day, however, when I can return to my posture of airily insouciant disdain for the whole system and can again cast votes only for hopeless third party candidates with a clear conscience. You have to ask yourself, "Whose more free, the person who knows what it is that he's seeking or the person who doesn't?" And so to read Harts words, mellifluous like a field doctors balm, reassuring me that the wending paths my intellectual and personal lives have enforced on my life of faith with Christ are not signs of divine dereliction for a lack of what St. Benedict would have called. Book: The Bitcoin Standard - Saifedean Ammous (Part 2/3) Listen now (40 min) | Government-issued fiat money is destroying your life's work. Twitter. Thousands of paid subscribers Leaves in the Wind 62 Dr. David Bentley Hart on his Substack newsletter "Leaves in the Wind" and, of course, Frank Robinson. Or, to put the matter differently, its roots go back that far and even to a few years before that. Unafraid conversations about anything. We can play games with it, but any metaphysics that is coherent is ultimately reducible to a monism.[76]. Aurelian is a political science prof at Indiana University in Bloomington. David Bentley Harts 2022 You Are Gods: On Nature and Supernature shows that the debate is alive and by no means merely academic and inconsequentialpantheism, tradition, orthodoxy, and heterodoxy are all very much at stake in the argument. Facebook. 60 Dr. Thomas Senor - Christian Philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arkansas, and editor of the academic journal Faith and Philosophy. Personally, I would like as many walls of citations standing between us and hell as possible. [48][49] Peter Leithart wrote a critical response to Hart's book That All Shall Be Saved called "Good God?" Hello David, Next. Hart is a Christian socialist and a democratic socialist and has been a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. taylormertins.substack.com. : the articulation of a comprehensive exegetical method not simply for reading Christian texts but the fact of Christianity itself. Also by this author Say What You Mean $24.95 | 386 pp. If Harts corpus were to be compared with that of Origens, then Tradition and Apocalypse is easily his Book IV of the De Principiis: the articulation of a comprehensive exegetical method not simply for reading Christian texts but the fact of Christianity itself. Commonweal's latest, delivered twice weekly. "[36], In 2020, Theological Territories: A David Bentley Hart Digest was named Best Religion Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly. I found it entertaining and clever in many places, and illuminating in the way that it fits so many of Harts spiritual and intellectual concerns into a single framework. But the question What is David Bentley Harts deal? [12][13] Hart's friendship and substantial intellectual common ground with John Milbank has been noted several times by both thinkers. Hart's academic books include The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (Wm. Of my two cats, Jack keeps up with Hart fitfully. This is only the first posting, and yet this Substack page is about forty years old. Please. davidbentleyhart.substack.com. James Dominic Rooney regarding the necessity of all being saved", "Universal Salvation? How Odd Of God To Save This Way. Email. Aurelian is a political science prof at Indiana University in Bloomington. David Bentley Harts prodigious mind and imagination has given us just such a book. We'll recommend top publications based on the topics you select. WebSelf As Lab | David Hart | Substack About Self As Lab I have always been curious. Unafraid conversations about anything. WebDavid Bentley Hart | Substack David Bentley Hart Author of books and shorter works in a variety of genres--treatises, essay collections, fiction, children's fiction, vignettes, verse--on a variety of topics--religion, philosophy, literature, the arts, politics, culture, baseball, and so forth. Oct 21, 2021 On Christian Freedom and Capitalism - David Bentley Hart The employment of the will, if it's truly to be free, can never be severed from intellect as a knowledge of what it is you're seeking. 5 Unafraid conversations about anything. Roman Catholic scholar Robert Louis Wilken wrote that "in this original and lively book, Hart shows, why most Christian thinking about eternal damnation is unbiblical," and Orthodox Christian scholar John Behr described the book as "a brilliant treatment exegetically, theologically, and philosophically of the promise that, in the end, all will indeed be saved, and exposing the inadequacy above all moral of claims to the contrary. Both booksindeed all of Harts fictionsare overlong. Launched 2 years ago Biblical scholarship, classics, theology, philosophy, popular culture, poetry, short stories, and gardening. (She keeps having to glue Our Lady back together.) Angelico Press My copy of this book just arrived, and I'm eager to read it. What follows is my own open letter in response. More fundamentally, some longtime readers of Hart wonder what he is driving at. (The Beauty of the Infinite helped bring me out of a mild depression.) Design by. The death of Cardinal Pell exposed conservative Catholic efforts to secure the reversal of the Francis agenda at the next conclave. WebFoliis tantum ne carmina manda, ne turba volent rapidis ludibria ventis Click to read Leaves in the Wind, by David Bentley Hart, a Substack publication with thousands of readers. WebWe would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. [29] Two of his books, A Splendid Wickedness in 2016 and The Dream-Child's Progress in 2017, are collections devoted to popular and literary essays that also include several short stories. WebSelf As Lab | David Hart | Substack About Self As Lab I have always been curious. WebDavid Bentley Hart 600 Paperback 38 offers from $7.21 That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation David Bentley Hart 632 Paperback 52 offers from $11.31 The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss David Bentley Hart 324 Paperback 47 offers from $8.49 Editorial Reviews From the Back Cover Oct 21, 2021 On Christian Freedom and Capitalism - David Bentley Hart The employment of the will, if it's truly to be free, can never be severed from intellect as a knowledge of what it is you're seeking. It suggests that nothing is truer than the historical moment when that death actually occurred, and that if other things are true its because that moment is. It's easy for some individuals to create rich worlds of religious meaning and purpose, but for most of the people I know, the Church is absolutely essential to resisting the emptiness, busyness and superficiality of daily life in the secular West. During the 20142015 academic year, Hart was Danforth Chair at Saint Louis University in the Department of Theological Studies. by david bentley hart baker academic, 208 pages, $24.99 David Bentley Hart was once the darling of postliberal theologians for his brilliant books on divine beauty and the illogic of atheism. In 2017, Hart was described by Matthew Walther (a columnist at The Week and later founding editor of The Lamp) as "our greatest living essayist".[25]. Or, to put the matter differently, its roots go back that far and even to a few years before that. WebDavid Bentley Hart may be reached at dhart4@nd.edu. A metaxological view of tradition may well be what Hart is pressing, even as his rhetoric sometimes suggests a liquifying of the Christian tradition to the extent that it risks liquidating it. With a few more specifics, Hart wrote on April 3, 2022: In my heart of hearts, I want to vote for someone whose entire political philosophy is derived from John Ruskin by way of Kenneth Grahame, with lashings of William Cobbett, Gilbert White, and William Morris; failing that, I want to enjoy the luxury of writing in Wendell Berry on every ballot. And so to read Harts words, mellifluous like a field doctors balm, reassuring me that the wending paths my intellectual and personal lives have enforced on my life of faith with Christ are not signs of divine dereliction for a lack of what St. Benedict would have called stabilitas, still less some headlong free fall into heresy as an apostate (a word I have heard uttered by friends and trusted clerics, sometimes with phlegm, sometimes with a chuckle, and sometimes both), but are, rather, appropriate, understandable, even apocalyptically tuned-in responses to what Christianity has been, is, and is becoming in our late postmodern worldwell, it has me a bit emotional, honestly, and thats saying something. 0:00. One asks the question in awe. Roland in Moonlight is too strange, entertains too many important questions, and is written with too palpable a love for Harts family and his dog not to command the attention of philosophically inclined readers. Although grounded primarily in arguments from Christian metaphysics and moral philosophy, the book also considers biblical exegesis, systematic theology, and historical theology (with extensive references to universalist ideas among Christian patristic figures such as Gregory of Nyssa). [50][51] Edward Feser claimed in April 2022 that Hart's book You Are Gods: On Nature and Supernature advocates pantheism. Even here, Harts style is consistent with his theology. Or, to put the matter differently, its roots go back that far and even to a few years before that. Perhaps, here, Sophie's World meets Alice through the Looking-Glass, or Don Quixote meets The Wind in the Willows. If Harts corpus were to be compared with that of Origens, then Tradition and Apocalypse is easily his Book IV of the De Principiis: the articulation of a comprehensive exegetical method not simply for reading Christian texts but the fact of Christianity itself. He writes with clarity and force, and he drives his points home again and again. An Anglican convert to Eastern Orthodoxy, Hart has praised Orthodox thinkers such as Kallistos Ware, Alexander Schmemann, John Meyendorff, and Olivier Clment. Angelico Press He has two brothers: Addison Hodges Hart (also an author)[83][84] and Fr. A. Baker, Patrick Leigh Fermor, and Vladimir Nabokov.[64]. [16] His primary academic interests have been philosophical theology, systematics, patristics, classical and continental philosophy, and South and East Asian religion with recent focus on the genealogy of classical and Christian metaphysics, ontology, the metaphysics of the soul, and the philosophy of mind. 62 Dr. David Bentley Hart on his Substack newsletter "Leaves in the Wind" and, of course, Frank Robinson. 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. In struggling, I am only listening sincerely to the freely expressed attitudes of many of the dearest friends that I have made in the Orthodox and Catholic worlds: that my inability or unwillingness to compromise either, or the mental, emotional, and spiritual health and well-being of the people closest and most special to me, whose love makes life meaningful, in the name of upholding the antiquity or the orthodoxy of institutions for whom I am at best a nameless asset and at worst a nameless threat signifies that I have no real Christian conviction at all. So the writer may as well use whatever comes to hand. Also by this author Say What You Mean 62 Dr. David Bentley Hart on his Substack newsletter "Leaves in the Wind" and, of course, Frank Robinson. The archbishop went on to clarify that "we can't teach universal salvation as doctrine, but we can hope for it" which Golitzin identified as "my own attitude which I take from Metropolitan Kallistos Ware. Read in the Substack app. Obsessed with learning. If Harts corpus were to be compared with that of Origens, then. WebDavid Bentley Hart may be reached at dhart4@nd.edu. Whatever Harts limitationsthey are huge, as one would expect; when a giant stumbles he makes a messhe is brilliant, and frequently lovable, and on a couple of occasions personally helpful to me. What is the purpose of human existence? Hello David, I prefer to think of myself more as a scholar of religious studies, by the way, than a theologianand there are a lot of people who would prefer I call myself that, as well. WebWe would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. In 2017-2018, he served as the NDIAS's Assistant Director of Undergraduate Research Assistants. Email. [11], A prolific essayist, Hart has written on topics as diverse as art, baseball, literature, religion, philosophy, consciousness, problem of evil, apocatastasis, theosis, fairies, film, and politics. WebA reader of David Bentley Hart's Substack informed me of a post where he engages in his usual bilious attacks and misrepresentations. I am starting a subscription newsletter on Substack, dedicated to all the topics that fascinate me, in all the genres in which I typically write. In his nonfiction writing, is he, perhaps, sometimes just a little hasty in his generalizations, a bit lavish with his use of the No serious scholar of X would ever think of denying Y formula? Novel is not really the right word for the book. A survey of Harts trajectory suggests that he, at least, is not trying to restore some once-and-for-all spiritual inheritance. Kenogaia (A Gnostic Tale) retells the story of the Gnostic Hymn of the Pearl. 108 David Bentley Hart responds to claims of heresy by Fr. in Theology from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia. Before reading it, it would help if youve already read my review and Harts reply. control, salvation, recapitulation, the crucified Christ, David Bentley Hart, and eschatological tension. Like you, I've wrestled with a fair amount of self-doubt, but I've always been pulled back to center by the people I love and serve. For example, people are kept in line by the threat of an eternal hell. But in his new book, Tradition and Apocalypse, he argues that the Christian tradition is bankrupt. Even in The Devil and Pierre Gernet, the most perfectly shaped of his stories, the ending arrives only after one has grown restive and fidgety. At the age of 18, Hart moved from high-church Anglicanism to join the Orthodox tradition and is asked to serve and contribute by leaders in his church tradition such as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. Will these books interest readers who arent otherwise concerned with Harts worldview? This is only the first posting, and yet this Substack page is about forty years old. Tradition and Apocalypse, published earlier this year, insists that there is no single deposit of tradition that Christians should strive to recover; we are faithful to something far beyond us, not behind us. This steady output of often provocative essays have appeared in First Things (2003 to 2020),[23] The New Atlantis,[24] Commonweal, Aeon, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and many other periodicals. Open app. control, salvation, recapitulation, the crucified Christ, David Bentley Hart, and eschatological tension. Also by this author Say What You Mean Over at Substack, David Bentley Hart has written an open letter in reply to my recent review, at Public Discourse, of his book You Are Gods: On Nature and Supernature . 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. Hart is a master rhetorician, but I would much prefer O'Regan's studious and careful approach to tradition and history than Hart's impatient and bombastic approach. As an outspoken advocate of classical theism as seen, for example, in his book The Experience of God[74] who is also, more generally, engaged with the schools of continental philosophy, idealism, and neoplatonism,[75] Hart also affirms monism. [82], Hart is married and has one grown son with whom he co-wrote the children's book The Mystery of Castle MacGorilla (2019). 13. Devouring everything I can trying to "level up", to understand myself and this world better, to edge an advantage, to try and shine a light slightly further down the tunnel of where life might go. The New Testament: A Translation was published in 2017 with Yale University Press (and a 2nd edition in 2023). PhilChristman is a lecturer at the University of Michigan and the author of Midwest Futures. David Bentley Hart (born 1965) is an American writer, philosopher, religious studies scholar, critic, and theologian noted for his distinctive, humorous, pyrotechnic and often combative prose style. David Hart Aug 3, 2022 07. David Bentley Hart Angelico Press $24.95 | 386 pp. Luckily, I had Harts example to follow. Professor Hart was a Directors Fellow and a Templeton Fellow in residence at the NDIAS. David Hart Oct 30, 2022 08. [15] He has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), Duke Divinity School, and Loyola College in Maryland. Facebook 0 David Artman September 15, 2021. I have picked at the book and may end up reading it, but Hart seems to be off-balance of late. 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. He has every reason to sympathize with Gnosticism, since his labored breathing and malingering digestive system very literally represent the handiwork of a malign demigodthe upper-class English dog-breeder, who in his arrogance and folly has saddled Harry with these very problems as the conditions of his existence. David Bentley Hart Obsessed with learning. In that sense, my primary response to Harts book is one of gratitude for the affirmation it provides me. Facebook. What, exactly, is David Bentley Harts deal? Hart refers to the idea of an atemporal fall in his 2005 book The Doors of the Sea as well as in his essay "The Devils March: Creatio ex Nihilo, the Problem of Evil, and a Few Dostoyevskian Meditations" (from his 2020 book Theological Territories): The fall of rational creation and the conquest of the cosmos by death is something that appears to us nowhere within the course of nature or history; it comes from before and beyond both. I show his arguments are fallacious. Like the devil in that story, Hart cant stop talking. In The Experience of God (2014) he wrote about his admiration for Vedanta in particular, which he now says he prefers to several popular strains of Western Christianity. that at the macroscopic level Christianity as a whole has demonstrated throughout its history, raising the question of how it might be a single tradition at all. His lonely characters strike a familiar chord for any city dweller. New Testament scholar and translator N. T. Wright challenged Hart's translation of the New Testament in January 2018. As I slouch towards forty, this means far more to me than it once did. There is craft, even genius, in the pacing of the early chapters, the way Hart leads the reader, by hints and coincidences, into a world where fairies exist and dogs talk. Next. Thousands of paid subscribers Leaves in the Wind Ep. I confess that I have of late struggled not so much with my commitment to Christ, who remains the great love of my life, but with my specifically Christian identity. WebFoliis tantum ne carmina manda, ne turba volent rapidis ludibria ventis Click to read Leaves in the Wind, by David Bentley Hart, a Substack publication with thousands of readers. David Bentley Hart (born 1965) is an American writer, philosopher, religious studies scholar, critic, and theologian noted for his distinctive, humorous, pyrotechnic and often combative prose style.

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