Ebook {Epub PDF} The Experience of God: Being Consciousness Bliss by David Bentley Hart

 · In his new book, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, and Bliss, David Bentley Hart, although not a Stoic, offers what he himself calls a series of “meditations on the meaning of the word ‘God.’” Hart’s meditations occur in the midst of considerable cultural confusion about what “God” means: a confusion that is itself part of a broader, and often unexamined, commitment to a Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins.  · Constructing his argument around three principal metaphysical “moments”—being, consciousness, and bliss—the author demonstrates an essential continuity between our fundamental experience of reality Author: David Bentley Hart. 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.

While David Bentley Hart's newest book, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss, is not to be taken as an explicit work of Christology, it is a robust and stylistically scintillating footnote to St. Paul on the Areopagus; a paean to "the void they cannot name", the experience of God that is—to borrow from Hopkin's As. 37 Full PDFs related to this paper. Read Paper. David Bentley Hart. The Experience God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, pp. $ (Cloth), ISBN: Reviewed by Bryan C. Hollon, Department of Theology, Malone University for Christian Scholars Review, Summer I've finally started reading the book that's touted as the be-all and end-all of Sophisticated Theology™, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss, by David Bentley Hart, published last year by Yale University Press. As you probably know if you're a regular, this book has been touted by many religious people as the most definitive argument for God and most compelling.

The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss. Written by David Bentley Hart Reviewed By Natan Mladin. Systematic Theology. Abstract. New Haven: Yale University Press, ix + pages. £/$ (paper). David Bentley Hart’s somewhat misleadingly titled The Experience of God is a brilliant and necessary contribution to contemporary discussions about the existence of God and the relationship between faith and science, against the backdrop of a rhetorically virulent. 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.