/lit/ - Literature

Is David Bentley Hart worth reading? I'm not Christian but I have respect for any thinking man who's as prolific as he is. Where should I start?

>BTFOs Postmodernists, Chuds, Larpagans, Tradlarpers, Tankies and Atheists.
I kneel.

I like David Bentley Hart's zinger against Dawkins in his book God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss:

>"As for Dawkins own attempt at an argument against the likelihood of God's existence, it is so crude and embarrassingly confused as to be germane to nothing at all, perhaps not even to itself."

Then he deals with the "argument" only in a footnote at the back of the book because it's so idiotic it doesn't even deserve to be addressed in the main text of a serious scholarly book.

I have an interest in prose stylists. Gibbon, John Henry Newman, Nabokov, Walter Pater, John Updike, Bertrand Russell, Evelyn Waugh, Annie Dillard, etc.
If someone has a reputation for being a great prose stylist -- even a rumor of being an accomplished stylist -- I have read him! Now, in my humble opinion, the greatest prose stylist of all time is clear. I almost hate to admit this because he's such a smug, arrogant bastard, but... David Bentley Hart. No question.
His prose style isn't just lovely and flowing, but his thought is profound and deep. He is incredibly well read and works in his learning without facile and vapid namedropping to sound smart, but he actually uses his wide reading to make relevant points.