David Bentley Hart: Quotes about God

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“The final encounter with God, or an encounter with God that would take you beyond doubt, wouldn't have the character of a metaphysical proof.”

David Bentley Hart

David Bentley Hart - Can metaphysics discern God?
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“Unless the world is truly set apart from God and possesses a dependent but real liberty of its own analogous to the freedom of God, everything is merely a fragment of divine volition, and God is simply the totality of all that is and all that happens; there is no creation, but only an oddly pantheistic expression of God's unadulterated power.”

David Bentley Hart

The Doors of the Sea (2005), p. 91; on Predestination in Calvinism.

God , World , Freedom , Dependency

“Beauty crosses every boundary, traverses every series, and so manifests the God who transcends every division.”

David Bentley Hart

Source: The Beauty of the Infinite (2003), p. 21

God , Beauty

“Creation's being is God's pleasure, creation's beauty God's glory; beauty reveals the shining of an uncreated light. … Creation is only a splendor that hangs upon that life of love and knowledge, and only by grace; it is first and foremost a surface, a shining fabric of glory, whose inmost truth is its aesthetic correspondence to the beauty of divine love. … It is delight that constitutes creation, and so only delight can comprehend it, see it aright, understand its grammar. Only in loving creation's beauty—only in seeing that creation truly is beauty—does one apprehend what creation is.”

David Bentley Hart

Source: The Beauty of the Infinite (2003), p. 252

Love , Life , God , Pleasure

“The secret irony pervading these arguments [on objections to the goodness of God] is that they would never have occurred to consciences that had not in some profound way been shaped by the moral universe of a Christian culture.”

David Bentley Hart

Source: The Doors of the Sea (2005), Chapter 1, Section 2, location 144

God , Universe , Secret , Way