Questions About the Perception of “Christian Truth”: On the Affective Effects of Sin

This article engages David Bentley Hart's critique of coercive “demonstration” in apologetics in favor of Gospel proclamation in the mode of “persuasion.” More specifically, I evaluate Hart's articulation of persuasion as a discourse that is primarily aesthetic and traffics primarily in be...

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Главный автор: Smith, James K. A. 1970- (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: 2007
В: New blackfriars
Год: 2007, Том: 88, Выпуск: 1017, Страницы: 585-593
Другие ключевые слова:B Beauty
B Violence
B David Bentley Hart
B Aesthetics
B Natural Theology
B Apologetics
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Итог:This article engages David Bentley Hart's critique of coercive “demonstration” in apologetics in favor of Gospel proclamation in the mode of “persuasion.” More specifically, I evaluate Hart's articulation of persuasion as a discourse that is primarily aesthetic and traffics primarily in beauty. After expressing an appreciation for Hart's critique of the traditional apologetics of demonstration, I suggest that Hart's own proposal still has elements of an “apologetic”—a kind of natural “aesthetic” theology, but a natural theology nonetheless. I conclude by extrapolating the Reformed critique of natural theology (based on the “noetic effects of sin”) to include a critique of Hart's aesthetic quasi-natural theology by providing an account of the “affective” effects of sin.
ISSN:1741-2005
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: New blackfriars
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-2005.2007.00185.x