We Listen as D B Hart Be’s

This is a meet, right, and salutary lecture.
One of the more interesting points he makes is that the Neo-Platonists did not simply equate pure being with “the One.” Hart says that, rather, being emanated from the one.

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Assuming Society

The church cannot conceive of itself as an institution within a larger society, as a pillar of society, culture, and civic order, or as a spiritual association that commands an allegiance simply in addition to the allegiance its members owe the powers of the wider world.  The church is no less (as Origen knew) than [...]

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Analogies and Analytics

Indeed, the very idea of an “analytic” philosophy is a hopeless one: in attempting to reduce every “synthetic” proposition to one or more analytic truths, self-evidently and even tautologously correct, one makes the mistake of imagining that truth for finite beings is ever anything but synthetic: just as being is granted to beings by an [...]

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D B Hart on Essence/Energies

Gregory himself appears to reject any “realism” regarding the divine energies (CE 1:87), but Palamas is able to draw on language of Gregory’s, and I am not at all convinced that Palamas ever intended to suggest a real distinction between God’s essence and energies; nor am I even confident that the energies should be seen [...]

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