Uploaded January 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Another excerpt from David Bentley Hart's brilliant lecture.
See the full lecture here: youtube.com/watch?v=EOShHXaqt0M

David Bentley Hart is an Eastern Orthodox theologian, philosopher, and patristics scholar. Hart was educated at the University of Maryland, the University of Cambridge and the University of Virginia. He has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), Duke Divinity School, and Loyola College in Maryland.

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams described David Bentley Hart as "a theologian of exceptional quality, but also a brilliant stylist."