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David Bentley Hart Quotes

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Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison of faith (all three were believing Christians, of one sort or another) but from the enormous burden of the millennial authority of Aristotelian science. The scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was not a revival of Hellenistic science but its final defeat  (David Bentley Hart Quotes) Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience  (David Bentley Hart Quotes) Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy  (David Bentley Hart Quotes) Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former  (David Bentley Hart Quotes) The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same  (David Bentley Hart Quotes) The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the direction of all faiths at once, with little interest in precise aim  (David Bentley Hart Quotes) True philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one’s own hopes or conceptual limitations  (David Bentley Hart Quotes)