David. B. Hart's "Christ and Nothing"
This is one of Professor Hart's finest pieces. First published in First Things magazine, it has now become a important and controversial scholarly touchstone, and it is often used in apologetics and in...
View ArticleDavid B. Hart's "The Laughter of the Philosophers"
One of Professor Hart's more humorous articles (as the title would suggest). This one generated a lot of controversy over Professor Hart's witticisms.My favorite “whimsical” anecdote about a...
View ArticleDavid B. Hart, his critics, and "The Laughter"
As noted in the post of "The Laughter of the Philosophers," Professor Hart provoked some outrage of his comments. Below are various letters to the editor and Professor Hart's response.Laughing MattersI...
View ArticleDavid B. Hart's "Freedom and Decency"
This is the second of Professor Hart's two, excellent articles on obscenity and society. The first is "The Pornography Culture."Things could conceivably be far worse. The brief ebullition of...
View ArticleHart, Cowling, and "A Most Partial Historian"
A great revew of Maurice Cowling's Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England.Maurice Cowling (b. 1926) has never gained wide celebrity in Britain and is all but unknown beyond its shores, even...
View ArticleDavid B. Hart's "Tsunami and Theodicy"
This is the companion piece to the Wall Street editorial "Tremors of Doubt" and the book "The Doors of the Sea."No one, no matter how great the scope of his imagination, should be able easily to absorb...
View ArticleDavid B. Hart's "Tremors of Doubt"
This is a popular piece from the Wall Street Journal. A First Things article and a book, The Doors of the Sea, were later based from it.What kind of God would allow a deadly tsunami?On Nov. 1, 1755, a...
View ArticleDavid B. Hart's "An Orthodox Easter"
A nice piece from the WSJ's taste column.This is one of those rare years when Christians of the Eastern and Western communions will celebrate Easter on the same Sunday. For those of us who--in quixotic...
View ArticleResponses to "Tsunami and Theodicy"
Here is a letter in response to "Tsunami and Theodicy," followed by David B. Hart's response.David B. Hart has missed the mark with his short apologetic, “Tsunami and Theodicy” (March 2005). Not only...
View ArticleDavid B. Hart, "The Future of the Papacy," and Ecumenism
This was a response to a George Weigel article in First Things about the role of the papacy in Church history.As John Paul II’s extraordinary pontificate enters its twilight (pray God, a long and...
View ArticleDavid B. Hart, "When the Going was Bad," and Evelyn Waugh
A review of Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writings.The year 2003 marked the centenary of the birth of Evelyn Waugh, which Knopf has chosen to observe by reissuing all seven of his “travel” books in...
View ArticleDavid B. Hart's "Roland Redivivus"
A review of a new translation of Orlando Innamorato.Orlando (or Roland, as he was originally called), the greatest paladin of the (mythic) court of Charlemagne, once loomed in the consciousness of...
View ArticleDavid B. Hart's "Con Man"
I should first confess that I cannot approach this book with perfect detachment. I am personally acquainted not only with its author, Damon Linker, but with Richard John Neuhaus and the rest of the...
View ArticleReligion in America: Ancient and Modern
All culture arises out of religion. When religious faith decays, culture must decline, though often seeming to flourish for a space after the religion which has nourished it has sunk into disbelief...
View ArticleThe Anti-Theology of the Body
To ask what the legacy of John Paul II’s Theology of the Body might be for future debates in bioethics is implicitly to ask what relevance it has for current debates in bioethics. And this creates...
View ArticleThe Pornography Culture
Writing not as a lawyer, I am able to address the Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) only somewhat obliquely. Concerning the legal merits of the case,...
View ArticleDaniel Dennett Hunts the Snark
In the second section-or "fit"-of Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, the Bellman lectures the crew of his ship on the peculiar traits of the creature they have just crossed an ocean to find....
View ArticleIndex of Articles
This is an index of the articles currently found on the site.A Most Partial HistorianThe Anti-Theology of the Body(New)Christ and NothingCon Man(Now finished)Daniel Dennett Hunts the SnarkFreedom and...
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