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What do we even mean by ‘God’? In conversation with David Bentley Hart

What do we even mean by ‘God’? In conversation with David Bentley Hart

Nick Spencer speaks with philosopher and theologian David Bentley Hart. 24/10/2023

Everyone – even those who utter it with contempt – uses the word ‘God’. But we don’t all use it in the same way. Indeed, you could argue that we talk past each other more often when we talk about God than when we talk about any other topic.

So what do we mean when we talk about God? What does the word even mean? Is the God of the philosophers the same as the God of the religious? Or indeed the God of the atheists?

In this week’s episode, Nick Spencer speaks to philosopher and theologian David Bentley Hart about his book ‘The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss’

 


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Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer

Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of a number of books and reports, including Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023), The Political Samaritan: how power hijacked a parable (Bloomsbury, 2017), The Evolution of the West (SPCK, 2016) and Atheists: The Origin of the Species (Bloomsbury, 2014). He is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.

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Posted 24 October 2023

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