You Are Gods, David Bentley Hart
You Are Gods, David Bentley Hart
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You Are Gods
On Nature and Supernature

Author: David Bentley Hart

Narrator: Chris Monteiro

Unabridged: 5 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/14/2022

Synopsis

In recent years, the theological—and, more specifically, Roman Catholic—question of the supernatural has made an astonishing return from seeming oblivion. David Bentley Hart's You Are Gods presents a series of meditations on the vexed theological question of the relation of nature and supernature. In its merely controversial aspect, the book is intended most directly as a rejection of a certain Thomistic construal of that relation, as well as an argument in favor of a model of nature and supernature at once more Eastern and patristic, and also more in keeping with the healthier currents of mediaeval and modern Catholic thought. In its more constructive and confessedly radical aspects, the book makes a vigorous case for the all-but-complete eradication of every qualitative, ontological, or logical distinction between the natural and the supernatural in the life of spiritual creatures.

Hart, one of the most widely read theologians in America today, presents a bold gesture of resistance to the recent revival of what used to be called "two-tier Thomism," especially in the Anglophone theological world. In this astute exercise in classical Christian orthodoxy, Hart takes the metaphysics of participation, high Trinitarianism, Christology, and the soteriological language of theosis to their inevitable logical conclusions.

About David Bentley Hart

David Bentley Hart is a philosopher and Orthodox theologian whose work encompasses a wide range of subjects and genres. He has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of St. Thomas, Loyola College in Maryland, Providence College, and Saint Louis University. In 2015, he was granted a Templeton Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. Hart has written numerous books, including The Beauty of the Infinite, The New Testament: A Translation, The Devil and Pierre Gernet, Theological Territories, and That All Shall Be Saved.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on March 25, 2022

Who Should Read This Book- Theology nerds. What’s the Big Takeaway - Creation is in the process of being completed, as God calls creation out of nothingness towards the fullness of divinity. God infuses all creation with his presence, God makes all and all is being made into complete union with God (......more

Goodreads review by Scriptor Ignotus on May 02, 2022

You Are Gods is a series of six essays, each previously standing alone, reflecting on what may variously be termed the “natural supernatural”, the divine-humanity, or the chiasmic mutual inherence of divine and created nature. The stream of thought germinating these essays was prompted in large part......more

Goodreads review by Avery on February 07, 2024

This book was a bit scattered. His takedown of Thomist thought on nature and super-nature was thorough and compelling. His discussion on aesthetics and ethics was insightful. And they were plenty of random little quips to keep it interesting. Here is one of those Hartisms "The failure to see the fac......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on August 10, 2023

The least noteworthy of DBH’s works, to my mind. The first and last articles are certainly the the best, but the former is beautifully thomist while he asserts indifference to Thomas while the latter is simply (and mostly) beautiful. Pia Fraus is a mess of ideas and dismissive of many without engagi......more

Goodreads review by Cougar on May 09, 2024

What a fabulous read. In a little over 100 pages, topics such as the judgment of beauty, the rational will's infinite desire, and the silence of God are touched upon in a conglomeration of essays. It does get complex for slowbois like myself, especially when Hart refers to the ideas of philosophers......more

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