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Ausgabe:

Mai/2017

Spalte:

574–575

Kategorie:

Ökumenik, Konfessionskunde

Autor/Hrsg.:

Hart, David Bentley

Titel/Untertitel:

A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays.

Verlag:

Grand Rapids u. a.: Wm. B. Eerdmans 2016. XII, 297 S. Kart. US$ 35,00. ISBN 978-0-8028-7264-7.

Rezensent:

Ola Sigurdson

The Eastern Orthodox theologian, philosopher and cultural commentator David Bentley Hart, who has taught at a number of pres­-tigious universities in the U. S., is the author of quite a few books. Previously, I have read The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (2004), in which a dialogue or perhaps rather a confrontation is staged between traditional Christian Platonist theol-ogy and current critical theory, such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Deleuze and others. This is in many ways a brilliant book, densely written and highly interesting, but I must confess I did not see this coming: the stylistic talent and – more often than not – acerbic prose of H.’s occasional writing. Maybe a reader of his philosophical treatise The Experience of God: Being, ...


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