A Review of David Bentley Hart's new book All Things Are Full of Gods

The extended gap between this post and my last one was due to a rather exciting opportunity.

I was asked by the website Eclectic Orthodoxy to write a review essay of David Bentley Hart’s new book All Things Are Full of Gods, which came out in late August.

That review is now live. You can read it here:

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Hart has probably had the most influence on me of any living theologian and writer, so I was very gratified to get the chance to do this.

His new book is a massive and challenging tome on philosophy of mind, but it was truly exceptional. The review took me a bit longer to write than anticipated because I had to revisit a lot of the history of evolutionary biology. There's more to say on that front, and I plan to expand my discussion of evolution and reductionism in a future post.

For now, I hope you enjoy this review, which intersects with quite a few of the topics that I regularly chronicle here.