How Strange It Is to Be Anything At All

The Gift of Being

I’ve been re-reading David Bentley Hart’s 2013 book, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss. Without going into all the reasons I disagree with Hart’s other works (and even parts of this one), I have to confess how much I love this book. It is an impressive work of defining precisely (and even poetically) what the classical traditions have u…