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>> No.12743728

Pretentious cunt. Full of himself. Can't stand him, personally.

>> No.12743738

>>12743728
what are your main issues with him?

>> No.12743778

>>12743738
Deliberate usage of as many "big words" and purple prose as possible to make himself sound smart, just comes off as obnoxious. Democratic socialist who thinks the Gospels teach some sort of radical communism (see: https://blogs.ancientfaith.com/nootherfoundation/deep-melancholy-david-bentley-hart/ ). Intellectually dishonest, for example, see his (ongoing?) debate with Feser on natural law and the death penalty. I'm not even a Christian, but for some reason his hatred of Justinian and love of Origen piss me off, even though I have no dog in that fight. I think it's just a matter of him basically trying to pass off those views as legitimately Orthodox views, which they are not, and that is really intellectually dishonest. He should at least have the balls to take a stand outside of Orthodox viewpoints, as in, to openly admit that he is outside the Orthodox view on these issues but state his reasons for doing so, but instead he tries to misrepresent them as being legit views (if that makes sense?). Just generally a pompous guy with little self-awareness of how ridiculous he looks.

>> No.12743783

>>12743778
Also his fans are just as bad, and basically mimic his pomposity and writing style. Go visit his DBH fan group on Facebook and you'll see what I mean. They're basically Christian hipsters with intellectual pretensions.

>> No.12743843

>>12743778
>>12743783
I am not a christian as well, but isn't Jesus' teaching that of radical liberation, how would describing him as a socialist or a communist be wrong?

>> No.12743855

He is definitely a well learned man (knowledge of church history, languages, the fathers, continental philosophy) but i agree with the other posters that he is alot of the times pompous and full of himself

>> No.12743876

>>12743843
He does not teach communism. The fact that he tells a few individual people to give their possessions does not mean he is instituting a society wide system. For example, what about the wealthy Roman centurion whose servant Jesus heals. Why doesn't he tell him to give up all his possessions, after praising his faith so highly? And on top of that, Christianity always takes both Old and New Testaments as being authoritative, so you can't make doctrines up by selective misquotation of one of the texts. But like I said, I don't have a dog in that fight, and honestly I don't care.

>> No.12743899

Bentley Hart said recently that he finds atheism intellectually boring

>> No.12743992

He totally misunderstood the gospels.
Otherwise he wouldn't be filled with hubris.
It feels like he just studied thesaurus instead of reading actual books, he's a pseudo-scholar.

>> No.12744000

his universalism seems like the only coherent theology that makes sense

>> No.12744041
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12744041

Contemporary theologian rec thread?
What do we think about pic related? Hart seemed to like his Five Proofs for God, despite his previous animosity towards Feser
who are some other good ones besides John Milbank?

>> No.12744114

>>12744041
I have read Feser's Five Proofs, and I found them very good. I am currently reading Scholastic Metaphysics by him.

One thing I think Feser does not do a good job with is engaging with Wittgenstineans though.

>> No.12745569

GENIUS

>> No.12746444

>>12743778
>>12743992
>Stop using big words!! Just get the point ahah amirite!?!?!?
I thought this was the literature board?