Domestication of the Bible

For some time now, I have been thinking about David Bentley Hart’s article Christ’s Rabble, which appeared in the Catholic magazine Commonweal, and, in a slightly different form, also in the New York Times with a provocative title Are Christians Supposed to Be Communists?

For those who don’t know, David B. Hart is an American Orthodox theologian and one of the most important contemporary Christian thinkers. In his work The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth, he developed a modern and highly relevant aesthetic argument for the existence of God and for the truth of the Christian message. In his book Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, he insightfully and wittily refutes Richard Dawkins’ God Delusion. But besides his theological and philosophical writings, he has also completed a translation of the entire New Testament from the original Greek. It was his intensive study of the New Testament text that prompted him to write the above article.

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