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By David Bentley Hart

The ebook starts via tracing the moving use and nature of metaphysics during the considered figures like Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Levinas, and others -- a dialogue that highlights the numerous "interruption" that Christian idea brought to the Western philosophical culture. This dialogue units the level for a retrieval of the vintage Christian account of good looks and sublimity, and of the relation of either to the query of being. by means of framing his mirrored image on the subject of the Trinity, construction, salvation, and the eschaton, Hart is ready to exhibit the facility of Christian metaphysics not just to resist the opinions of recent and postmodern concept but in addition to maneuver way past them. demanding and deeply profitable, the great thing about the countless is either an invaluable account of the historical past of metaphysics and a compelling contribution to it.

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