January 26, 2015

David Bentley Hart: Beauty, Form, and Violence



Wikipedia:
David Bentley Hart (born 1965) is an Eastern Orthodox theologian, philosopher, and cultural commentator.

Hart earned his BA from the University of Maryland, MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and MA and PhD from the University of Virginia. He has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), Duke Divinity School, and Loyola College in Maryland.

On 27 May 2011, Hart's book Atheist Delusions was awarded the Michael Ramsey Prize in Theology. Hart's latest book, The Experience of God, The Guardian called "the one theology book all atheists really should read."
Title: David Bentley Hart: Beauty, Form, and Violence - Biola Art Symposium 2013. Source: BiolaUniversity. Date Published: March 16, 2013. Description:
Violence & Peace in Contemporary Art: Biola Art Symposium 2013. March 2, 2013. 
David Bentley Hart, is an Orthodox theologian, philosopher, and cultural commentator, whose specialties include philosophical theology, patristics, and aesthetics. รข€¨Hart has been published in various periodicals including, Pro Ecclesia, The Scottish Journal of Theology, First Things, and The New Criterion. He has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of St. Thomas, Duke Divinity School, and Loyola College in Baltimore. Hart is the author of seven books including Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (Eerdmans, 2004), which has been lauded by The Christian Century as "one of the most brilliant works by an American theologian in the past ten years." His two most recent books are The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? (Eerdmans, 2011), and The Devil and Pierre Gernet: Stories, his first work of fiction (Eerdmans, 2012).