This, the third post in our series on David Bentley Hart’s The Beauty of the Infinite, brings us to the heart of Hart’s…proposal, the beauty of divine infinity. Again, Kent and I invite your comments and corrections.
Before we proceed, however, we should note that Halden has attempted to locate the difference between Hart and Robert Jenson: the [...]
Archive for July, 2008
David Bentley Hart on Trinitarian Infinity
Posted in David Bentley Hart, Theology, Trinity on July 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For the Life of the World
Posted in Church, tagged sacrament on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have been reading through a great little book called For the Life of the World by Alexander Schmemann, and thought I would post a quote and some questions. Schmemann, in the midst of talking about food (of all things), says this:
We can interupt here for a while this theme of food. We began with [...]
Prayers » François Fénelon, Archbishop of Cabrai (1651-1715)
Posted in Prayers on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lord, I do not know what I ought to be asking of you. You are the only One who knows what I need. You love me better than I know how to love myself. O Father! – give your child what I do not know how to ask for myself. I do not dare ask [...]
D.B. Hart on Divine Difference & Perfection
Posted in David Bentley Hart, Theological Aesthetics, Trinity on July 18, 2008 | 6 Comments »
There are likely no deeper theological waters in which to swim than those of trinitarian doctrine. Here, theology in all its creaturely limitedness directs humble and careful attention to God’s being in and of himself – the divine life of Father, Son, and Spirit – and to God’s gracious self-giving in the economy of salvation. [...]
Ancient Faith for the Church’s Future
Posted in Book Reviews, Church, Evangelicalism, Hermeneutics, Scripture on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mark Husbands & Jeffrey Greeman eds. Ancient Faith for the Church’s Future. Downers Grove: IVP, 2008. 271pp., $21.86.
The later years of the twentieth century saw evangelical theology beginning to remember the importance of the church’s tradition and, in doing so, to engage in its own form of ressourcement theology (La nouvelle théologie). As Husbands contends,
[I]t [...]
David Bentley Hart on the Trinity
Posted in David Bentley Hart, Theological Aesthetics, Trinity, Violence on July 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Today, we start a new series in which every Friday we will post selections from David Bentley Hart’s The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth for discussion. Kent and I (James) will simply provide a quotation followed by a few lines of commentary. Disagreement, correction, or affirmation are all welcome.
If you are [...]
Reactions » Michael Buesking, “Adventus”
Posted in Art, Christian Life, Revelation on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Buesking, “Adventus”, Oil on Linen (2005)
Reactions? Buesking’s own comments about this piece might get us started: “My intention is to suggest the presence of the Spirit and His gifts, and present them as something impossible to contain or hold. Implying a tenuous quality to God’s presence is not meant to be a bad reflection [...]
Christianity and the “Removal of God”
Posted in Church, Kierkegaard on July 2, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Consider Søren Kierkegaard’s reflections on God’s nearness and remoteness and the manner in which the church’s outward “successes” may in fact signal its “removal of God.” What does the church today need to hear from Kierkegaard?
The law for God’s nearness and remoteness is as follows: The more the outward externals, the appearances, indicate that God [...]
