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David Bentley Hart's Advice to Theology Students
Dr. David Bentley Hart talks with SLU graduate student Elizabeth Nelson about his advice for people studying theology.
Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University
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David Bentley Hart on Studying Theology
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In this video SLU PhD Student Yvonne Angieri Klein talks with Dr. David Bentley Hart about what drew him to theology. Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University Website: www.slu.edu/theology.xml Facebook: theologyslu Twitter: slu_theology
David Bentley Hart on the Soul
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Dr. David Bentley Hart talks with theology major Kathleen Schmitz about the soul in the history of Christian thought. Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University Website: www.slu.edu/theology.xml Facebook: theologyslu Twitter: slu_theology
David Bentley Hart - "Soul, Consciousness, Being" Danforth Lecture, Saint Louis University
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Dr. David Bentley Hart is the Danforth Visiting Professor of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. In this, the first annual Danforth Theology Lecture, he speaks on the topic of "Soul, Consciousness, Being." Given April 8, 2015. 00:00 - Introduction, Dr. Grant Kaplan 03:30 - Lecture, Dr. David Bentley Hart 49:45 - Questions, Dr. David Bentley Hart Department of Theological Studies, Sai...
David Bentley Hart discusses Saint Louis University
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Dr. David Bentley Hart, our Danforth Visiting Professor of Theological Studies, discusses his time at Saint Louis University and the importance of studying historical theology.
Why Choose Theology?
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Learn from our 2014-15 Theology Ambassadors about why they chose to major in theology.
Considering Theology at SLU?
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Considering Theology at SLU? Learn from our 2014-15 Theology Ambassadors why its a great choice!
2014 Theology Ambassadors III
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2014 Theology Ambassadors III
2014 Theology Ambassadors II
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2014 Theology Ambassadors II
2014 Theology Ambassadors I
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2014 Theology Ambassadors I

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @mattgrimes2409
    @mattgrimes2409 Рік тому

    theres a hole in my soul thats been killing me forever

  • @rebeccadubois8270
    @rebeccadubois8270 Рік тому

    Souls aren't real, literally zero evidence for them. Nothing about any creature survives past its own death except in the minds of those who loved it/you. Religions are coping mechanisms as well as a means to control you. It's all about power

  • @afm4711
    @afm4711 Рік тому

    Long strings of words do not make the soul a coherent concept. It‘s just said to see how religion keeps people from thinking.

  • @salt88
    @salt88 2 роки тому

    At the end he looks into the camera and it's as if he's looking right into my soul

    • @LyovaCampos
      @LyovaCampos 7 місяців тому

      Because you're following an idol not God. Throw away this false prophet to the trash & repent please

  • @darkknightsds
    @darkknightsds 2 роки тому

    What did he just say lol

  • @porcelaintree
    @porcelaintree 2 роки тому

    I've had practically no exposure to Patristics. Is Hart talking about hylomorphism?

  • @jasonegeland1446
    @jasonegeland1446 3 роки тому

    I've combed over every possible angle and the soul is made of purple goo and is located in the left eyeball. I didn't waste my time in college for nothing. I can provide proof.

  • @tylerlynch2849
    @tylerlynch2849 3 роки тому

    David Bentley Hart is one of the shining lights of modern theology. The pedants and mouth-breathers in this comment section are sadly obscuring a fantastic video!

  • @theriversexitsense
    @theriversexitsense 3 роки тому

    Its so strange to me just how cerebral he is. How can one speak so extensively about the soul without talking with any soul? To ponder the nature of the soul for so long and not sit in its mysteriousness one bit.

    • @LyovaCampos
      @LyovaCampos 7 місяців тому

      He's the biggest heretic of our time

  • @3leon306
    @3leon306 4 роки тому

    DBH ... too much cultivated affectation (yes, it is a choice for him) to endure. the well-wrought sphincter

  • @myopenmind527
    @myopenmind527 4 роки тому

    He should employ her as his translator.... ua-cam.com/video/bXrjn7PeNnE/v-deo.html

  • @stevenhunter3345
    @stevenhunter3345 5 років тому

    I wish more theologians had this broader perspective on their work. It isn't just an academic discipline in service of apologetics or sectarian factions. Hart's prose can be painful to trudge through at times, but his aesthetic theology is remarkable. Every Christian should read his "The Beauty of the Infinite."

  • @Actuary1776
    @Actuary1776 5 років тому

    I can see someone asking this guy what his name is and him going into a 20 minute dialogue afterwards only to get ooohs and aaahhhs from the crowd. OMG David Hart Bentley. So I could do without the persona.

    • @stevenhunter3345
      @stevenhunter3345 5 років тому

      It can become grating, but I don't think it's a put-on affect. I just think when you combine what seems like his awkwardness with his erudite smugness (and I say that as an admirer), it comes across this way.

  • @whoami8434
    @whoami8434 6 років тому

    Why is every video of this guy accompanied by the world’s worst audio?

  • @kierenmoore3236
    @kierenmoore3236 6 років тому

    Sounds like a navel-gazer extraordinaire! And he's found a way to make a living from it. Not that that's difficult in the US ... Still, good for him.

    • @danielcox6193
      @danielcox6193 6 років тому

      sounds like you don't know what you're talking about... Still, good for you.

  • @mypublicchannel3884
    @mypublicchannel3884 6 років тому

    Madness. Sheer madness. This man knows nothing of value. All he speaks is derived from invention. From suggestion. From supposition. From rank assertion. Theology rests squarely on the shoulders of an ostensible god. On an ostensible god that is ostensibly known, or knowable. No such thing exists to our knowing. All talk of such a thing is pure conjecture, thus, theology is wholly baseless. It is a complete fraud. It is devised systems for analyzing something that doesn't exist in our knowing. Thus, it is completely empty. Vacant. Vacuous. Inert. Not to see this makes you blind. Not to understand this makes you stupid. To see and to understand this yet to act otherwise makes you a liar and a fraud. This man is either a liar and a fraud, or he is stupid. I'll let him choose either. But either, he must choose. I have no special credentials. I am a real nobody in a sense. But I am clear. I am intelligent. And I am honest. The combination of which licenses me to see, to understand, and to speak out in all candor. This man may have intellectual chops and a reservoir of knowledge that confers upon him a tacit authenticity - but he knows nothing, as he has based his life on a lie. That there is something called a god and that he is qualified to talk about it as if it were a known/knowable commodity. This man knows as much about a god as he knows about what is buried a thousand kilometers beneath the Martian surface. Say anything you want about a god. Make any claim you wish. And then dare anyone to prove you wrong. It can't be done. When it comes to god, anyone can say anything and everyone is right because no one can be proven wrong. Now, sit down and ask yourself why that is, or more to the point, how that is, and if you are intelligent, you will immediately realize that the subject of god is wholly subjective. Ergo: everyone is right, and everyone is wrong. God is a construct and nothing more. There is a .0000000001% chance that anyone got what I said. And if this guy beat the odds, he'll never cop to it. He needs to make a living. At your expense.

    • @Drigger95
      @Drigger95 6 років тому

      Everything you said is nothing but your invention as well. Everything political theorists say, everything literature professors say, everything the humanities say, everything logicians and mathematicians say. Hell, throw out all the humanities and just stick with your 'observational science'. Oh wait. Science can't exist without them. Go back to living in the caves and eating moose.

    • @mypublicchannel3884
      @mypublicchannel3884 6 років тому

      You are what we technically refer to as an idiot.

    • @Drigger95
      @Drigger95 6 років тому

      You are what we technically call a myopic robot spam bot.

    • @anthonypiseno6341
      @anthonypiseno6341 6 років тому

      Spoken like a true reductionist. While that may seem like a good argument against David Hart or any study of theology. It simply attempts to do something that is very limited in its nature and makes unscrupulous claims about logic. One can only take reductionism so seriously. As it uses logic to disprove or wittle down those things that are purely logical. In other words, you provide no refutation of David Hart's arguments. But merely a straw man of the entire field of logic and metaphysical investigation from an extreme empiricist perspective. Which can be used in all fields of study.

    • @mypublicchannel3884
      @mypublicchannel3884 6 років тому

      Produce your god, honey bunny boo.

  • @mypublicchannel3884
    @mypublicchannel3884 6 років тому

    You know what you should do, bunky? After you arrive at your final gasp of an explanation, you should have the unwitting victim of your dialectic word salad explain back to you what you just said. I guarantee this woman could not be more confused.

    • @nigelpalmer347
      @nigelpalmer347 3 роки тому

      What a load of waffle. This guy needs to work on his exposition, to put it mildly. Is he being deliberstely obscure to impress? And this is an eminant theogan and philosopher?

    • @tylerlynch2849
      @tylerlynch2849 3 роки тому

      It will be easy for you to slink back to the hole you came from, since you can just retrace the path your knuckles dragged in the earth. Absolute ignorance on display from you and the other detractors

    • @nigelpalmer347
      @nigelpalmer347 3 роки тому

      @@tylerlynch2849 Thank you for that charitable interpretation, probable non-judgmental ,loving and forgiving Christian. Haha.

    • @LyovaCampos
      @LyovaCampos 7 місяців тому

      ​​@@nigelpalmer347☦Exactly, people here are getting mad that we true Christians exposing their false prophet & blasphemer for what he really is: an emperor with no clothes? Yes, this elitist talks gibberish to sound smart, and there's nothing "Orthodox" about him, so they need to repent for following idols like this arrogant one

    • @enchantingamerica2100
      @enchantingamerica2100 20 днів тому

      It’s not hard to grasp the basic idea if youre familiar with the topic of the philosophical history of the soul, from antiquity to cartesian dualism, even if he is struggling to give an account of his thought as a syllabus. this is an overview of a course, not a thesis statement.

  • @mypublicchannel3884
    @mypublicchannel3884 6 років тому

    The study of theology is oxymoronic as you can't study something that is baseless. The most basic definition of theology is the study of the nature and the aspects of god. As no such thing is known to exist, especially not within any specific format, then there is nothing specific to study. Ergo: Theolgy is a total fraud.

    • @Glassr91
      @Glassr91 6 років тому

      Theology is apart of the humanities. It's is the study of the history of religious beliefs, practices, cultures, and philosophy. It is far from baseless. Christianity, islam, judeism, hinduism, buddism, taoism, etc, are all historically infulential faiths that are still practiced today. Weather these faiths are true or not.

    • @mypublicchannel3884
      @mypublicchannel3884 6 років тому

      How cute. You want to parse it out until it intersects with something real. Try googling definitions for theology, Forest. Like these, for instance the·ol·o·gy (thē-ŏl′ə-jē) n. pl. the·ol·o·gies 1. The study of the nature of God and religious truth; rational inquiry into religious questions. 2. A system or school of opinions concerning God and religious questions: Protestant theology; Jewish theology. 3. A course of specialized religious study usually at a college or seminary. If people did not believe a god existed, there would be n o theology. The problem with asserting the existence of as god isn that it coincides with a non-functioning brain. if you assert a god, then you are clueless, and you will waste this entire incarnation. Theology is a complete sham

    • @Glassr91
      @Glassr91 6 років тому

      That is exactly what I said. Theology is the study of ideas and beliefs regarding the trascended. You are treating theology like a science it s not. Theology, once again, is of the humanities. Like liturature, philosophy, art, music, history. These fields of study deal mainly with society and culture. "If nobody believed in God, there would be no theology" thats real rocket science right there. Thats with all fields of study. If said thing was not apart of human experience it would not be studied by humans.

    • @mypublicchannel3884
      @mypublicchannel3884 6 років тому

      You are officially nuts.

    • @Glassr91
      @Glassr91 6 років тому

      Lol more ad hominems.

  • @zer0L0
    @zer0L0 6 років тому

    Always good to hear Bentley Hart. But I can barely hear the audio in this clip . Any chance it could be cleaned up an re-loaded ?

  • @myopenmind527
    @myopenmind527 6 років тому

    The study of theology is the study of nothing. Sad to waste a life studying so little when there are so many worthwhile disciplines to study.

    • @Shirohige33
      @Shirohige33 6 років тому

      My OpenMind nice assertion with zero objective value. Just a personal opinion of your own psychological state. Troll back to your cave now.

    • @myopenmind527
      @myopenmind527 6 років тому

      Jotun Heim don’t like the truth much. Can you define “god”?

    • @Shirohige33
      @Shirohige33 6 років тому

      My OpenMind God is the source of ALL reality outside himself. Not that I'm waiting you to understand it but just for the record.

    • @myopenmind527
      @myopenmind527 6 років тому

      Jotun Heim be a little more specific.

    • @Drigger95
      @Drigger95 6 років тому

      sad to waste a life studying mechanical bullcrap with no purpose when the universe is going to end up all the same and nothing really matters. You can't get more delusional than that

  • @williama.hovestreydt6623
    @williama.hovestreydt6623 7 років тому

    the soul weighs 21 grams :)

  • @futuristiclettuce
    @futuristiclettuce 7 років тому

    This is how I understand it. The soul is the formal essence of the human. The soul is not matter or energy, there is no glowing orb of energy that is the human soul. The soul is a spiritual entity. What is spirit. Spirit is relational. The soul, a spirit, is the unique individuals relationality with being itself, that is God, who is being in its fullest sense. The soul is like the window through which a human individual knows and is known by reality in its unity (not individual parts). We each have a unique soul because we each have a unique relationship with God, that is being in its fullest realization, as it reveals itself to us. I'm not saying this is correct, but this is how I understand it.

    • @nigelpalmer347
      @nigelpalmer347 3 роки тому

      Plain as horseshit.

    • @futuristiclettuce
      @futuristiclettuce 3 роки тому

      @@nigelpalmer347 care to share your viewpoint?

    • @LyovaCampos
      @LyovaCampos 7 місяців тому

      The soul is NOT spirit - the spirit of life injected to it is, which gives it life. The soul is not material yet CORPOREAL, a substance, which forms the flesh & all its organs & gives it orders as a computer program, and flows by the blood throughout the flesh. While David Bentley Hart is just a blasphemer false prophet

  • @ericday4505
    @ericday4505 7 років тому

    A thought, can Hart answer a question in 3 sentences or less, btw that young lady looks as if she hasnt a clue as to what he is talking about. I love DBH but he REALLY makes you think even just to follow him on a point he is making, he probably does not have a desire to be more popular in the mainstream, but if he does he has got to be more plain , for lack of better term, he uses some very vague adjectives, every person is not a PHD.

    • @Drigger95
      @Drigger95 6 років тому

      what are you even saying? He's perfectly comprehensible

    • @youngpilgrim5
      @youngpilgrim5 4 роки тому

      Don't tell an Olympian gymnast to simplify their routine for the sake of popular appeal. He's not gifted as a popular appeal theologian, he is gifted as a world-class, scholarly theologian. Let him be what he is.

    • @ericday4505
      @ericday4505 2 роки тому

      @@chanting_germ. You know what is funny in these comments, just about everyone says basically, well just smarten up, and listen I get it that Harr is a PHD, with a great vocabulary, in more than 1 language, the guy is brilliant, but what about the student who is just coming into their own, right, they probably, or possibly might give up on Hart before giving him a chance, with the way that he goes out of his way to use difficult terms, and it could even hurt him in book sales, so all of you geniuses who are taking up for him, remember his editors might be telling him that he could be more ecsesable to more people if he just reeled it in a bit. Having said that though, the guy is flat out brilliant, I love the guy.

    • @PC-vp2cg
      @PC-vp2cg 6 місяців тому

      ​@@ericday4505Hope after one year you learnt the correct spelling of accessible...

    • @ericday4505
      @ericday4505 6 місяців тому

      @@PC-vp2cg Spelling aside, what do you think of my other points?

  • @Seraphim-ki4bk
    @Seraphim-ki4bk 7 років тому

    That girl is beautiful

    • @st.mephisto8564
      @st.mephisto8564 2 роки тому

      @A P Hart is too good to be alone. I say he should start leaning in more

    • @vladislavstezhko1864
      @vladislavstezhko1864 8 місяців тому

      @@st.mephisto8564 He is married

  • @ObjectiveBob
    @ObjectiveBob 7 років тому

    One Thomist disliked this.

  • @stevejjd
    @stevejjd 8 років тому

    He is amazing

  • @REDRAGON12345
    @REDRAGON12345 8 років тому

    Haha he's so awkward

  • @johnsmith5139
    @johnsmith5139 9 років тому

    It might be time to indulge in some new sound equipment.

  • @bananimal45
    @bananimal45 9 років тому

    DBH is my favorite living philosopher/theologian. He is one of a few people that actually understands.

    • @basilpalichev6732
      @basilpalichev6732 6 років тому

      bananimal45 Yes, but how to understand _him_? Not very approachable at times, most times (disclaimer: am not trained philosopher :)

    • @LyovaCampos
      @LyovaCampos 7 місяців тому

      That's because just like him, you don't believe in God, so repent

  • @tabrizi79
    @tabrizi79 9 років тому

    great to see him have lost weight (a lot!), hopefully he will be healthier and live longer

    • @stevejjd
      @stevejjd 8 років тому

      tabrizi79 yeah I was think that too - it would be good for him and may even make him sharper. Lots of amazing thinkers let their bodies go and they waist away early

    • @TheProdigalMeowMeowMeowReturns
      @TheProdigalMeowMeowMeowReturns 4 роки тому

      Stephen, waste*

  • @Ewilds
    @Ewilds 9 років тому

    I wonder how Dr. Hart would respond to the fact that Etienne Gilson was a doctrinaire Thomist, but also one of the most celebrated philosophers of the early 20th century? It seems "factionalism" doesn't always lead to a narrow, and unfruitful focus.

    • @christall-in-all3235
      @christall-in-all3235 8 років тому

      He was a very independent Thomist. He also was a very historicaly minded. And thus was able actually to see and draw on the metaphysics of St. Thomas, rather than that of his commentators seeing for instance the primacy of "esse" in the thought of Aquinas. There are reasons why he was an ally with De Lubac who recovered the doctrine of the Fathers and of the real St. Thomas on nature and grace.

  • @Ewilds
    @Ewilds 9 років тому

    I would like to ask Dr Hart why he didn't include any discussion of Orthodox philosophy in his book _Being, Consciousness, and Bliss_?

    • @RootinrPootine
      @RootinrPootine 2 роки тому

      It is orthodox philosophy. The philosophy in the book is least ignored by orthodox vs other Christian sects, but none is uncorrupted. He’s pretty clear in the intro why or why not-regarding what he wanted included in the book.

  • @Cvintes
    @Cvintes 9 років тому

    I really want to listen to the lecture, but the sound is just terrible. Could you please fix it? Than you!

  • @shayneswenson
    @shayneswenson 9 років тому

    Yeah, nice effort, as i salivate with every new DBH upload, however the audio quality quickly satiates my thirst.

  • @shayneswenson
    @shayneswenson 9 років тому

    What a guy. Glad he's feeling better.

    • @shayneswenson
      @shayneswenson 9 років тому

      He was hospitalized for complications due to black mold inhalation in his home. His mother was ill too.

    • @LyovaCampos
      @LyovaCampos 7 місяців тому

      What a heretic you mean

  • @thomasellisonfilms
    @thomasellisonfilms 9 років тому

    I'm loving that more videos of David Bentley Hart are coming out... but can something be done about the audio on these videos? Please and thanks!