David Bentley Hart’s latest work is ostensibly a response to the ‘New Atheists’ who loom so large on the contemporary apologetic horizon. Hart has little time for the likes of Dennett, Hitchens and Harris, whose arguments he describes as being ‘pursued at only the most vulgar of intellectual levels.’ However, Hart has more than rhetoric here. The first and second sections of the book present a devastating demolition of several key pillars

Read more

The German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) created a paradigm shift in both science and theology. His theory that the mind plays an active role in constructing objective experience created a ‘Copernican revolution’ in epistemology by placing the human subject at the centre of epistemological inquiry. Kant’s work also represented a watershed in theology and apologetics. He famously asserted that while we cannot objectively demonstrate

Read more