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  • Paperback: 462 pages
  • Publisher: Eerdmans (October 29, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 080282921X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802829214
  • Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1 x 9.4 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsDense and Breathtaking
By Jacob on December 19, 2008
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It took me several months to finish this book. Hart argues for getting beauty back as a theological category. Reformed and the more intellectually rigorous evangelicals are the ones who will likely read this book. That is good. Those are the ones--and I am reformed--who need to see beauty in theology. Hart uses the latest vocabulary from postmodern philosophy. the reader is urged patience in this regard. The first section of the book (the first 150 or so pages) is incredibly hard to read. Hart assumes that his readers are intimiately familiar with Nietzsche, Derrida, and Levinas. I wasn't.

Hart argues that the Trinity is the answer to the postmodern problem of *differance.* Where postmoderns see the world--and language--as chaotic and violent because of the inherent difference of reality, Hart sees the Trinity as a sublime answer to differance. The Trinity can accommodate differance because the Trinity can posit a reality that is both diversity without confusion, otherness without violence. This is the hardest part of the book. What Hart is saying is that postmoderns--and most Calvinists, ironically--assume that any difference in reality is necessarily violent. Hart shows how the Trinity solves the problem of linguistic violence.

The rest of the book after that is relatively easy to read. Hart divides his book into Trinity-Creation-Salvation-Eschatology categories. This is where his Eastern Orthodoxy is evident and provides a welcome relief to the strictly judicial categories of the West. The section on salvation literally sang! The last 200 pages were a brilliant tour-de-force.

This book has the potential to re-write American theology. It also can unify across confessional lines without watering the unity down into the usual WCC garbage.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsPregnant with erudition and spiritual depth....
By Happy Buyer on January 27, 2005
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David Bentley Hart's The Beauty of the Infinite is a veritable Tour de Force! Like the the great theological masterpieces of old, Dr. Hart draws his readers into what may be called "The Great Conversation," as he displays an easy familiarity with with Christian writings "ever ancient, ever new." According to Dr. Hart, God the Thrice-Holy Trinity reveals and manifests Himself as the all-transcendent Essence of Beauty, and the infinitely potent Energy through, with, and in Whom all creation -- both visible and invisible -- is made beautiful. My recommendation: buy TWO copies -- one for the shelf, and one to keep always within reach ... this one's a modern classic of metaphysics, philosophical theology, and Christian mysticism.

(It is unfortunate, however, that Amazon.com continues to list the paperback as "out of print," when it clearly IS in print, and moreover, quite available. I got my copy at Newman Bookstore in Washington, DC: (202) 526-1036.)
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5.0 out of 5 starsChristian aesthetics vs. postmodern
By Bob Swain on October 31, 2004
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This book takes on and even takes in to a great extent the work of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze and many others in the postmodern lineage and compares them to the likes of Gregory of Nyssa and St. Augustine. In doing so, Hart shows what duffers our "postmoderns" are. Revealing a truly gigantic erudition, Hart does what many Christians have wanted for several decades running now. He shows that our great classical tradition doesn't end with "postmodernism" any more than humanity itself ends just because some teenager decides to dress up as a Goth. Humanity may end for that teenager, but it doesn't end the entire human race or the rest of civilization's covenant with the Almighty. Unless you've read this book, you cannot consider yourself to be educated. Unless you've read this book, you might consider the French and German postmoderns to be truly intelligent. They are symptoms of dying societies that have lost touch with the most profound wisdom and substituted for it some paradoxes that can easily sweep up those who are enthusiastic about minor fads because they lack a broader perspective. David Bentley Hart provides a powerful perspective that will allow genuinely erudite people to regain their culture. I am deeply grateful to him.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA theological aesthetics to truly savor
By Wes J. Arblaster on January 1, 2010
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This is a theological aesthetics of the highest order that is also thoroughly enjoyable. Hart displays a mastery of postmodern philosophy, patristic theology, and a general theological acuity that is truly mind-boggling. Yet you find yourself reading it with a quiet smile. While I have slogged my way through it from cover to cover twice, I find it much better read in small "morsels" so that one can savor his insight and rhetorical play in a manner which tantalizes the intellectual palate. It is beautiful, bewildering, inspiring, and intellectually exhausting - and all in a playful way! While at times his rhetoric does come across as somewhat excessive and his provocations brow-raising, one should not forget that the work displays in form what it suggests in content: that Being is itself the rhetorical display of the glorious excess of the Trintiarian life of God. I know that I will return to this work for years to come and will continue to enjoy it heartily, even in its verbosity and ostentatiousness. Consider it an intellectual cathedral which displays a playful grandeur that overwhelms and intices, puzzles and silences. Wander in, and do not hesitate to find yourself lost and enjoying every minute of it!
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Published 5 days ago by Bill Borror
5.0 out of 5 starsInfinitely beautiful.

“Εἰ θεολόγος εἶ, προσεύξῃ ἀληθῶς, καὶ εἰ άληθῶς προσεύξῃ, θεολόγος εἶ,” as Evagrius of Pontus said: “If you are a theologian, you pray truly; and if you pray truly,... Read more

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Also recommend his book on God and =Doors of the Sea.=

Published 10 months ago by Micah A. Towery
5.0 out of 5 starsEr-mazing. Have a dictionary on hand... ...

Er-mazing. Have a dictionary on hand... also, know about Deleuze, Lyotard, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, Hegel, Kant and the Greek Fathers.

Published 14 months ago by Andrew R. Talbert
2.0 out of 5 starsFairly Incomprehensible

This book was derived from an academic dissertation; consequently, it is written in the exclusive, labored language of that culture. Non-members need not apply. Read more

Published 20 months ago by Motley Wisdom
5.0 out of 5 starsA masterpiece: a profound thesis written by a man ...

A masterpiece: a profound thesis written by a man not only deeply conversant in both the western and eastern theological traditions, but also continental philosophy. Read more

Published on July 13, 2014 by DKA1212
5.0 out of 5 starsHart is excellent

I have to use a dictionary, but the writings of David Hart are always worth the mental exercise. Everything we read is so played to the galleries, it's refreshing to have someone... Read more

Published on May 24, 2014 by Padre
2.0 out of 5 starsOnly theologians need apply

I know from reviews that this book contains some very important theological ideas that are probably well worth exploring. Read more

Published on February 6, 2010 by William Breer
4.0 out of 5 starsdense and complex

this work is dense and complex; I'm still hopeful the reward will be commenserate.

Published on July 1, 2005 by Gerald L. Harper

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