As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“Hart makes some bold claims about the Greek New Testament that I want to subject to careful critique. In the long discussion that [David Bentley] Hart had with Wener, Hart says a number of things doctrinally speaking that I can’t in good conscience agree with. And he says some things that are hard to interpret with charity.” - Ward on Words
In his new book, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation, “Hart is no longer countering unbelief—as in Atheist Delusions (2010)—but is now in all-out war with fellow Christians believers who hold to traditional views on heaven and hell.” - TGC
God is not, in any of the great theistic traditions, merely some rational agent, external to the order of the physical universe, who imposes some kind of design upon an otherwise inert and mindless material order. He is not some discrete being somewhere out there, floating in the great beyond, who fashions nature in accordance with rational laws upon which he is dependent. (234-235)
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