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Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss by David Bentley Hart (2013, Hardcover)

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Despite the recent ferocious public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discussionGodfrequently remains vaguely and obscurely described. In doing so, he plumbs the depths of humanity’s experience of the world as powerful evidence for the reality of God and captures the beauty and poetry of traditional reflection upon the divine.

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PublisherYale University Press

ISBN-100300166842

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Book TitleExperience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss

Number of Pages376 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2013

TopicComparative Religion, General, Faith, History

GenreReligion

AuthorDavid Bentley Hart

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight19.2 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Reviews"Magnificent . . . Massively learned and gorgeously written, The Experience of God should entirely transform contemporary debates concerning the validity of belief in the divine."-Mark Anthony Signorelli, University Bookman, "With impressive erudition and polemical panache, David Hart smites hip and thigh the peddlers of a 'new atheism' that recycles hoary arguments from the past. His grim assessment of our cultural moment challenges the hope that 'the Christian revolution' could happen again."-Richard John Neuhaus, former editor in chief of First Things, "David Hart can always be relied on to offer a perspective on Christian faith that is both profound and unexpected. In this masterpiece of quiet intellectual and spiritual passion, he magnificently sets the record straight as to what sort of God Christians believe in and why."-Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge, "[Hart] retrieves and celebrates the classic Christian understanding of God . . . [with] rigorous logic and a caustic style . . . His elegant prose and witty invective bring Evelyn Waugh to mind. . . . Hart's exuberant writing unmasks the false pretensions of secularism."--Sidney Callahan, Commonweal, "Hart is a phenomenally gifted thinker who recalls believers of all faiths to the best of their traditions, challenges unbelievers to examine their own metaphysical presuppositions, and does these with tremendous gusto. . . . A necessary book."-Michael Robbins, Commonweal, "David Bentley Hart's new book is a feast- stylish and substantial. Bringing together Sanskritic analyses of God's being with Latin and Greek and Arabic ones, this is a considerable achievement by one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary theology."-Paul J. Griffiths, Duke Divinity School, "[A] major work by one of the most learned, forceful, and witty Christian theologians currently writing."- First Things, "Hart is a phenomenally gifted thinker who recalls believers of all faiths to the best of their traditions, challenges unbelievers to examine their own metaphysical presuppositions, and does these with tremendous gusto. . . . a necessary book."-Michael Robbins, Commonweal, "Writing at a high philosophical level with a sharp sense of humor, Hart argues for an ecumenical Theism. Devastatingly accurate, imaginative, and immensely readable, this is David Bentley Hart's best book"-Francesca Murphy, University of Notre Dame, "Magnificent . . . a book unlike anything done in recent times and one that only Hart could write."-Robert Louis Wilken, "A thoroughly entertaining and engaging read. It's difficult to convey to those who are unacquainted with Hart's writing the sheer exuberance of his prose and the bite to his wit."-Ryan Marr, Catholic Books Review, "Hart marshals powerful historical evidence and philosophical argument to suggest that atheists if they want to attack the opposition's strongest case badly need to up their game."-Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian, "David Hart's new book is nothing less than astounding. He is liberal, conservative, radical, theological, philosophical, and historical all at the same time that is his genius. There is no American writing on religion as intelligently, bravely, and originally as Hart."-Conor Cunningham, University of Nottingham, "Stunning . . . bracing and bold . . . For provoking deep thought about the profoundest human questions, and for taking an intelligent stand in defense of faith . . . Hart deserves the gratitude of a large and appreciative audience."-Damon Linker, The Week, "[A] major work by one of the most learned, forceful, and witty Christian theologians currently writing."-- First Things, "Bracing and eloquent . . . fans of Hart's winsome prose will not be disappointed . . . a fine work."-Edward T. Oakes, S.J., National Review, 'This hugely suggestive book is a lyrical paean to a vital, more capacious understanding of reality, ourselves and God: a timely and gripping invitation to wake up, see the regnant naturalism, and subvert its suffocating hegemony. The text is by turns elegant, curmudgeonly, witty, infuriating, incisive, nostalgic, rhapsodical, explosive, frequently bang on the money and always stimulating.' -Philip McCosker, The Tablet, "David Hart's new book is nothing less than astounding. He is liberal, conservative, radical, theological, philosophical, and historical all at the same time - that is his genius. There is no American writing on religion as intelligently, bravely, and originally as Hart."-Conor Cunningham, University of Nottingham, "My modest New Year's wish for 2014, then, is that atheists who care about honest argument and about maybe actually getting somewhere in these otherwise mind-numbingly circular debates might consider reading just one book by a theologian, David Bentley Hart's The Experience of God . . .They should read it because Hart marshals powerful historical evidence and philosophical argument to suggest that atheists if they want to attack the opposition's strongest case badly need to up their game."-Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian, "Hart marshals powerful historical evidence and philosophical argument to suggest that atheists-if they want to attack the opposition's strongest case-badly need to up their game."-Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian, Praise for Atheist Delusions: "Anyone interested in taking the debate about God to the next level should read and reflect on Hart's spirited brief on behalf of Christian truth."-Damon Linker, New Republic, "Hart . . . recalls believers of all faiths to the best of their traditions, challenges unbelievers to examine their own metaphysical presuppositions, and does these with tremendous gusto. . . . A necessary book."-Michael Robbins, Commonweal

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SynopsisFrom one of the most revered scholars of religion, an incisive explanation of how the word "God" functions in the world's great faiths, Despite the recent ferocious public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discussion--God--frequently remains vaguely and obscurely described. Are those engaged in these arguments even talking about the same thing? In a wide-ranging response to this confusion, esteemed scholar David Bentley Hart pursues a clarification of how the word "God" functions in the world's great theistic faiths. Ranging broadly across Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Vedantic and Bhaktic Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism, Hart explores how these great intellectual traditions treat humanity's knowledge of the divine mysteries. Constructing his argument around three principal metaphysical "moments"--being, consciousness, and bliss--the author demonstrates an essential continuity between our fundamental experience of reality and the ultimate reality to which that experience inevitably points. Thoroughly dismissing such blatant misconceptions as the deists' concept of God, as well as the fundamentalist view of the Bible as an objective historical record, Hart provides a welcome antidote to simplistic manifestoes. In doing so, he plumbs the depths of humanity's experience of the world as powerful evidence for the reality of God and captures the beauty and poetry of traditional reflection upon the divine., Despite the recent ferocious public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discussionGodfrequently remains vaguely and obscurely described. Are those engaged in these arguments even talking about the same thing? In a wide-ranging response to this confusion, esteemed scholar David Bentley Hart pursues a clarification of how the word God functions in the world s great theistic faiths. Ranging broadly across Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Vedantic and Bhaktic Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism, Hart explores how these great intellectual traditions treat humanity s knowledge of the divine mysteries. Constructing his argument around three principal metaphysical moments being, consciousness, and blissthe author demonstrates an essential continuity between our fundamental experience of reality and the ultimate reality to which that experience inevitably points. Thoroughly dismissing such blatant misconceptions as the deists' concept of God, as well as the fundamentalist view of the Bible as an objective historical record, Hart provides a welcome antidote to simplistic manifestoes. In doing so, he plumbs the depths of humanity s experience of the world as powerful evidence for the reality of God and captures the beauty and poetry of traditional reflection upon the divine."

LC Classification NumberBL473.H37 2013