"You Are Gods" by David Bentley Hart
In recent years, the theological—and, more specifically, Roman Catholic—question of the supernatural has made an astonishing return from seeming oblivion.
The University of Notre Dame Press is proud to announce the release of You Are Gods by David Bentley Hart, one of America’s most eminent contemporary writers on religion. Hart presents a series of meditations on the vexed theological question of the relation of nature and supernature. In its merely controversial aspect, the book is intended as a rejection of a certain Thomistic construal of that relation, as well as an argument in favor of a model of nature and supernature at once more Eastern and patristic, and also more in keeping with the healthier currents of medieval and modern Catholic thought.
According to Foreword Reviews, "You Are Gods is a challenging but rewarding theological text whose contents are confessedly radical, and whose endpoint is to advance the idea that nature and supernature are, in reality, one." Hart presents a bold gesture of resistance to the recent revival of what used to be called “two-tier Thomism,” especially in the Anglophone theological world. The book also offers a vision of Christian thought that draws on traditions (such as Vedanta) from which Christian philosophers and theologians, biblical scholars, and religious studies scholars still have a great deal to learn.
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David Bentley Hart is an Eastern Orthodox scholar of religion and a philosopher, writer, and cultural commentator. He is the author and translator of twenty-one books, including the award-winning Theological Territories: A David Bentley Hart Digest (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020).
You Are Gods is available from the University of Notre Dame Press on April 1, 2022. We encourage you to buy the book at your local independent bookstore either in person or online. For more information, or for a review copy, contact Kathryn Pitts, pitts.5@nd.edu, 574.631.3267.