'Matter, Monism, and Narrative: An Essay on the Metaphysics of Paradise Lost' ( Milton Quarterly, Winter 1996), pp.'A Gift Exceeding Every Debt: An Eastern Orthodox Appreciation of Anselm's Cur Deus Homo' in Pro Ecclesia, Vol.Hart adds that Bach's music further demonstrates the Christian vision of reality in how it accounts for dissonance the music makes room for it, he states, without degenerating into mere discord. Whereas Wagner's music has to end when and how it does, Bach's music contains infinite possibility and could have ended (if he had been immortal) in any number of fashions. Bach (1685-1750), his example of the Christian vision of reality. In an effort to explain this latter vision and to elucidate the difference between it and the former, Hart contrasts the music of Richard Wagner (1813-1883), which he cites as an example of the pagan or fatalist vision of reality, with that of J. He states that the Christian understanding of Creation as beauty and gift, as the outward expression of the delight the Trinity has in itself, reveals a vision of reality different from the pagan or fatalist vision of reality. In his book The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth, Hart discusses the language of beauty, the Triune God, and Creation. The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (2003) ISBN 978-0802812544.The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? (2005) ISBN 978-0802829764.The Story of Christianity: An Illustrated History of 2000 Years of the Christian Faith (2007) ISBN 978-1847241405.In the Aftermath: Provocations and Laments (2008) ISBN 978-0802845733.Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies (2010) ISBN 978-0300164299.The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss (2013) ISBN 978-0300166842.A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays (2016) ISBN 978-0802872647.The Dream Child's Progress and Other Essays (2017) ISBN 978-1621382492.That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation (2019) ISBN 978-0300246223.'.the beauty that perdures in the midst of the world's ceaseless becoming excites in the soul a longing for the infinite beauty that it reflects.' ('The Mirror of the Infinite: Gregory of Nyssa on the Vestigia Trinitatis,' p.

He completed his divinity school training at the University of Cambridge, and his graduate training at the University of Virginia. Paul, Duke Divinity School, and Loyola College in Baltimore, and his specialties are philosophical theology and patristics. He has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of St. Hart has been published in various periodicals, including Pro Ecclesia, The Scottish Journal of Theology, First Things, and The New Criterion.

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