The dream-child's progress
Subtitle: and other essays
By: David Bentley Hart
Publisher: Angelico Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Kettering, OH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781621382492; 9781621382478
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Theology; Philosophical theology; Essays
Work titles: Essays
Description: "By turns champion of the Christian difference and voice of dissent; friend to Moley and Water Rat and scourge to those of scientistic bent--these are but a few of the many guises of David Bentley Hart, whose books, essays, and reviews over the past twenty years have established him as one of America's foremost theologians, critics, and men of letters. Few have ave escaped Hart's withering scrutiny, as he has exploded comfortable attitudes of believers and unbelievers alike. Here he turns his vital, and at times acerbic, pen to matters of truly high import: books and authors--and in so doing ranges far and wide across our intellectual landscape. Writing on everything from Alice to Zen, here are meditations on culture, theology, and politics; on words, sports, and nature. Disarming, insightful, illuminating--and often wickedly funny--the essays in The Dream-Child's Progress give evidence of the great gift we have in Hart: a Christian intellectual engaging our world with warmth, candor, and clarity--but most of all, with charity."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude : a holiday reading list (books from a vanished library); title: The dream-child's progress; title: Upward and onward; title: The music of eternity; title: Origin of the specious; title: Obama and the lama; title: The Dawkins evolution; title: Haiti's devils; title: Six years in Tibet; title: Believe it or not : on the very disappointing literature of the new atheism; title: Hypatia reassembled; title: Taking liberties : Orlando furioso dissacrato; title: Mysteries of consciousness; title: The greatest nation on Earth; title: Charity and patriotism : further reflections; title: Aprés moi le deluge; title: The mysterious stranger; title: New year's titanic gods; title: Golf and the metaphysics of morals; title: "Whooshing" through life; title: A modest proposal; title: Polite discourtesy; title: A person you flee at parties; title: Farewell to a mountain; title: The desire of the nations; title: Patrick Leigh Fermor, RIP; title: Le mot juste; title: Saith the prescriptivist, nothing new is transpired under the sun; title: Luminous wisdom; title: The needle's eye; title: The inertia of reputation; title: A dream for our political season; title: In praise of good bad books; title: Brilliant bad books; title: Therapeutic superstition; title: The long march; title: Japan's epic; title: These fragments have I shored; title: The Nietzsche of Recanati; title: Reason's faith; title: Vinculum Magnum Entis; title: Traditio dformis; title: Romans 8:19-22; title: Saint Origen; title: Habetis Papam; title: A dialogue upon the island; title: Fie upon Phi; title: The scholar and the nymph; title: Mammon ascendant; title: Our atheism is different; title: Getting to Larisa; title: Christ's rabble : the first Christians were not like us (and a coda).