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From the prolific, profound pen of David Bentley Hart comes this collection of essays, reviews, and columns published in popular journals and newspapers over the past few years, comprising observations on culture, religion, and society at large. In the Aftermath fully displays the virtuosic prose that readers have come to expect from Hart. Book jacket.
Synopsis
From the pen of David Bentley Hart comes this collection of essays, reviews, and columns published in popular journals and newspapers over the past few years, comprising observations on culture, religion, and society at large.
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Christ and nothing (no other God) -- Notes on John Paul II's Pontificate, 2001 -- A most partial historian : on Maurice Cowling's religion and public doctrine in modern England -- Sheer extravagant violence : on Gogol's Taras bulba -- Religion in America : ancient and modern -- When the going was bad : on Evelyn Waugh's travel writings -- Freedom and decency -- The pornography culture -- The laughter of the philosophers -- Tremors of doubt -- Tsunami and theodicy -- Where was God? : an interview with David Bentley Hart -- Roland Redivivus -- The soul of a controversy -- Beyond disbelief : on Alister McGrath's The twilight of atheism -- The anti-theology of the body -- Ecumenical war councils : on Webster and Cole's The virtue of war -- The angel at the Ford of Jabbok : on the theology of Robert Jenson -- Infinite lit : on William Lynch's Christ and apollo -- Theology as knowledge -- On the trail of the snark with Daniel Dennett.