Thanks for this, took so many screenshots to reference later. My "to read" pile is already overstacked but I'm weighing whether to add this one anyway.
It's really good, but frankly I'm not sure how much marginal value you would get over just reading these excerpts, especially if you are already part of the choir he's preaching to
Hmm. All of the opening supposedly funny quotes strike me as pretty puerile and strained. I’ve never been sure why someone supposedly so infused with the Spirit draws so much evident joy from silly little insults.
As a member of Religious Naturalism and a Naturalistic Pantheist, I find that I am in essential agreement with most of what is written here. I think Hart and I are seeing the same reality from a different perspective and that this difference in perspective results in our defining our terms differently. I kind of get where he's coming from, but I say it in a different way.
Although some would call a Naturalistic Pantheist and form of atheism, I think of it more as a form of theism.
In regards to item 13: The problem with this argument is that it does not address Theodicy.
A lot of what is said here could fit nicely into the type of philosophical Taoism I espouse.
This is great! I have to admit I’ve been in consuming a lot of Substack “hands free” lately, which means listening to the audio version. I’ll also admit that, at about 35 minutes in, I decided it’d be better if I just read Hart’s book. There’s a Wikipedia page that’s solely a bibliography of Hart and it’s a bit overwhelming. Can you recommend anything (ideally in book form) of his writings on Gnosticism or his fiction?
The only full length book I've read is The Experience of God, which I think is a good place to start - a lot of interesting theology if you're into that sort of thing, but also metaphysics and philosophy of mind (but also frankly I'm not sure how much marginal value you would get over just reading these excerpts, especially if you are already part of the choir he's preaching to). I've heard really good things about his most recent book "All Things Are Full of Gods: The Mysteries of Mind and Life".
I don't know if he's written a book on Gnosticism per se, but I read a positive review of his fiction book Kenogaia which is a kind of gnostic allegory.
Thanks for this, took so many screenshots to reference later. My "to read" pile is already overstacked but I'm weighing whether to add this one anyway.
It's really good, but frankly I'm not sure how much marginal value you would get over just reading these excerpts, especially if you are already part of the choir he's preaching to
You might really like his "All Things Are Full of Gods", which is like an inverted version of Godel Escher Bach
Hmm. All of the opening supposedly funny quotes strike me as pretty puerile and strained. I’ve never been sure why someone supposedly so infused with the Spirit draws so much evident joy from silly little insults.
As a member of Religious Naturalism and a Naturalistic Pantheist, I find that I am in essential agreement with most of what is written here. I think Hart and I are seeing the same reality from a different perspective and that this difference in perspective results in our defining our terms differently. I kind of get where he's coming from, but I say it in a different way.
Although some would call a Naturalistic Pantheist and form of atheism, I think of it more as a form of theism.
In regards to item 13: The problem with this argument is that it does not address Theodicy.
A lot of what is said here could fit nicely into the type of philosophical Taoism I espouse.
This is great! I have to admit I’ve been in consuming a lot of Substack “hands free” lately, which means listening to the audio version. I’ll also admit that, at about 35 minutes in, I decided it’d be better if I just read Hart’s book. There’s a Wikipedia page that’s solely a bibliography of Hart and it’s a bit overwhelming. Can you recommend anything (ideally in book form) of his writings on Gnosticism or his fiction?
The only full length book I've read is The Experience of God, which I think is a good place to start - a lot of interesting theology if you're into that sort of thing, but also metaphysics and philosophy of mind (but also frankly I'm not sure how much marginal value you would get over just reading these excerpts, especially if you are already part of the choir he's preaching to). I've heard really good things about his most recent book "All Things Are Full of Gods: The Mysteries of Mind and Life".
I don't know if he's written a book on Gnosticism per se, but I read a positive review of his fiction book Kenogaia which is a kind of gnostic allegory.