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IN The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (Eerdmans, 448 pp., $45), Eastern Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart has written one of the most thrilling works of Christian reflection to come along in years. What Hart offers is nothing less than an interpretation of the entire Christian account--of God, creation, salvation, and eschaton--in which he shows that both reality itself and the Christian narrative of it are acts of divine beauty.

Why is there anything at all? The Christian answer to this question, writes Hart, goes far beyond the traditional philosophical speculations about the relations of the Many to the One. God creates not from ...

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