A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays
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A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays

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A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays

About this book

Incisive essays from a master wordsmith
 
Why has Don Juan become so passé of late? What’s the trouble with Ayn Rand? How did the Doge of Venice come to venerate the counterfeit remains of Siddhartha Gautama? Why does the Bentley family’s collection of ancestral relics include a bronzed human thumb? And what, exactly, is the story behind Great Uncle Aloysius, who was born a Quaker but died a pagan?
 
This collection of occasional essays brings us David Bentley Hart at his finest: startlingly clear and deliciously abstruse, coolly wise and burningly witty, fresh and timeless, mystical and concrete — often all at once. Hart’s incisive blend of philosophy, moral theology, and cultural criticism, together with his flair for both the well-told story and the well-turned phrase, is sure to delight.

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Publisher
Eerdmans
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780802872647
eBook ISBN
9781467444774
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religious Essays

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. 1. The Gnostic Turn
  4. 2. On Butterflies and Being
  5. 3. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (and Christ)
  6. 4. Saint Shakyamuni
  7. 5. The Secret Commonwealth
  8. 6. The Poetry of Autumn
  9. 7. Imprisoned
  10. 8. The Sanest of Men
  11. 9. A Perfect Game
  12. 10. Julian Our Contemporary
  13. 11. Eschatology as Entertainment
  14. 12. . . . Of Hills, Brooks, Standing Lakes, and Groves . . .
  15. 13. Brilliant Specialists
  16. 14. Anarcho--Monarchism
  17. 15. The Abbot and Aunt Susie
  18. 16. A Forgotten Poet
  19. 17. An Infinite Passion
  20. 18. A Philosopher in the Twilight
  21. 19. The Power of the Sword
  22. 20. The Trouble with Ayn Rand
  23. 21. Great--Uncle Aloysius
  24. 22. Seven Characters in Search of a Nihil Obstat
  25. 23. A Splendid Wickedness
  26. 24. Aloysius Bentley’s “Melancholy”
  27. 25. Graysteil
  28. 26. Lupinity, Felinity, and the Limits of Method
  29. 27. America and the Angels of Sacré--Coeur
  30. 28. Mediocrity’s Tribute
  31. 29. The Priceless Steven Pinker
  32. 30. Death the Stranger
  33. 31. Through a Gloss, Darkly
  34. 32. God and the Mad Hatter
  35. 33. Jung’s Therapeutic Gnosticism
  36. 34. Seeing the God
  37. 35. Is, Ought, and Nature’s Laws
  38. 36. Si Fueris Romae
  39. 37. Nature Loves to Hide
  40. 38. Purpose and Function
  41. 39. No Enduring City
  42. 40. The True Helen
  43. 41. Dante Decluttered
  44. 42. Emergence and Formation
  45. 43. From a Lost World
  46. 44. A Phantom’s Visit (C.B.)
  47. 45. Nabokov’s Supernatural Secret
  48. 46. Roland on Consciousness
  49. 47. The Love of Wisdom
  50. 48. Gods and Gopniks
  51. 49. Roland in Moonlight
  52. 50. Ad Litteram
  53. 51. Roland on Free Will
  54. Coda: C.B.

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