David Bentley Hart

David Bentley Hart (born 1965) is a writer, philosopher, religious studies scholar, critic, and theologian. A prolific essayist, he has written on topics as diverse as art, literature, baseball, religion, philosophy, consciousness, problem of evil, apocatastasis, theosis, fairies, film, and politics. His fiction includes the books Roland in Moonlight and Kenogaia (A Gnostic Tale), both published in 2021. Hart also maintains a popular subscription newsletter Leaves in the Wind that includes a YouTube channel where he posts conversations with other writers. In 2015, Hart was granted a Templeton Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study with research focused on the philosophy of mind. His translation of the New Testament was published by Yale in 2017 (with a 2nd edition in 2023). Hart is an Eastern Orthodox Christian.