David Bentley Hart

David Bentley Hart was appointed as a fellow at the University of Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study in 2015 and is currently a collaborative scholar in the departments of Theology and German for Notre Dame. He has served previously with St. Louis University, the University of Virginia, Duke University, and Providence College. He attended the University of Maryland for undergraduate, earned a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge, and a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Virginia. He has received extensive praise and some criticism for many books such as The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (2003), The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? (2005), The Story of Christianity: An Illustrated History of 2000 Years of the Christian Faith (2007), Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies (2009), The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss (2013), That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation (2019), Roland in Moonlight (2021), Tradition and Apocalypse: An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief (2022), You Are Gods: On Nature and Supernature (2022), and The New Testament: A Translation (2nd edition from Yale in March 2023). Dr. Hart has also written books for children and young people including a picture book The Mystery of Castle MacGorilla (2019) and a novel Kenogaia (2021, reviewed here on Altum). Finally, Dr. Hart writes regularly on his subscription newsletter Leaves in the Wind.