Three Links
An Interview and an Interview and a Review
Mercure (Nonidi), 29 Nivôse, CCXXXIV
Not long ago, I gave an interview to Alex O’Connor for his podcast Within Reason, and it has now appeared on his YouTube channel; it is also available on his Substack page for subscribers. I thought it a very fruitful conversation, chiefly because he asked only very good questions.
Also, the most recent interview has arrived over at Sesame and Lilies, in this case one conducted with Rupert Sheldrake, scientist and indefatigable dissident from materialist orthodoxies. It too was a delightful conversation.
Finally, a brief review of A Roland Colonnade has appeared in The Church Times.
If anyone asked me who the go to theologian to convert an atheist would be, i'd say David B. Hart.
I just finished listening to the conversation with Alex O’Connor, and it is indeed excellent. Alex is a genuine truth-seeker. When he began his channel, it was primarily in the vein of the “New Atheists,” arguing for atheism against classic theism and traditional religion.
Purely through a long journey of wrestling with the best philosophical arguments and exposing himself to great minds, he has acknowledged in this interview that he is “increasingly leaning towards the Idealist view of reality.” This is tantamount to announcing himself as a theist (though I’m not sure if he has quite realized it yet.)
I do hope that he will have you on again, Dr. Hart, as there are countless other topics you could discuss together. (Theology and biblical interpretation, Christology, the Resurrection, a non-reductive understanding of morality, history and debunking historical fictions, and even art, aesthetics, and literature.)