David Bentley Hart

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David Bentley Hart

Religious Studies

#48

World Rank

#155

Historical Rank

#20

USA Rank

Theology

#45

World Rank

#138

Historical Rank

#15

USA Rank

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According to Wikipedia, David Bentley Hart is an American writer, philosopher, religious studies scholar, critic, and theologian. Reviewers have commented on Hart's baroque prose and provocative rhetoric within Hart's over one thousand essays, reviews, and papers as well as nineteen books . From a predominantly Anglican family background, Hart became Eastern Orthodox when he was twenty-one. His academic works focus on Christian metaphysics, philosophy of mind, Indian and East Asian religion, Asian languages, classics, and literature as well as a New Testament translation with Yale. Books with wider audiences include The Doors of the Sea, Atheist Delusions, and That All Shall Be Saved. In addition to accolades and book awards, Hart has been criticized as heterodox by a variety of Christian scholars.

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David Bentley Hart's Published Works

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Published Papers

Standards for ecologically successful river restoration (2005) (1483)
How Dams Vary and Why It Matters for the Emerging Science of Dam Removal (2002) (779)
River flows and water wars: emerging science for environmental decision making (2003) (514)
PHYSICAL-BIOLOGICAL COUPLING IN STREAMS: The Pervasive Effects of Flow on Benthic Organisms (1999) (491)
Dam Removal: Challenges and Opportunities for Ecological Research and River Restoration (2002) (396)
RESOURCE LIMITATION IN A STREAM COMMUNITY: PHOSPHORUS ENRICHMENT EFFECTS ON PERIPHYTON AND GRAZERS' (1990) (161)
Fine‐scale field measurement of benthic flow environments inhabited by stream invertebrates (1996) (150)
Ecology. Synthesizing U.S. river restoration efforts. (2005) (135)
MODIFYING DAM OPERATIONS TO RESTORE RIVERS: ECOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO TENNESSEE RIVER DAM MITIGATION (2005) (134)
Habitat diversity and the species—area relationship: alternative models and tests (1991) (128)
Foraging and resource patchiness: field experiments with a grazing stream insect (1981) (126)
Foraging and resource patchiness: field experiments with a grazing stream insect (1981) (126)
Restoring watersheds project by project: trends in Chesapeake Bay tributary restoration (2005) (124)
AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING ECOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO DAM REMOVAL: THE MANATAWNY CREEK STUDY 1 (2002) (116)
Density-dependent dispersal of black fly neonates is mediated by flow (1996) (113)
Community organization in streams: the importance of species interactions, physical factors, and chance (1992) (111)
Effects of removal of a small dam on downstream macroinvertebrate and algal assemblages in a Pennsylvania stream (2005) (106)
Grazing insects mediate algal interactions in a stream benthic community (1985) (101)
Causes and Consequences of Territoriality in a Grazing Stream Insect (1985) (100)
A Special Section on Dam Removal and River Restoration (2002) (93)
TURBULENT TRANSPORT OF SUSPENDED PARTICLES AND DISPERSING BENTHIC ORGANISMS : HOW LONG TO HIT BOTTOM? (1997) (89)
Evaluating the spatial resolution of an acoustic Doppler velocimeter and the consequences for measuring near‐bed flows (1999) (80)
Recent Trends in Environmental Impact Assessment (1981) (79)
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (2003) (79)
Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies (2009) (77)
The Importance of Competitive Interactions Within Stream Populations and Communities (1983) (75)
Influence of Small Dams on Downstream Channel Characteristics in Pennsylvania and Maryland: Implications for the Long‐Term Geomorphic Effects of Dam Removal 1 (2009) (75)
Rethinking the role of ecological research in the sustainable management of freshwater ecosystems (2010) (73)
Diversity in stream insects: regulation by rock size and microspatial complexity: With 2 figures and 4 tables in the text (1978) (67)
Movement patterns and foraging ecology of a stream caddisfly larva. (1980) (65)
The adaptive significance of territoriality in filter-feeding larval blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) (1986) (63)
Flow mediates predator-prey interactions between triclad flatworms and larval black flies (1991) (61)
Perspective: The challenge of ecologically sustainable water management (2006) (57)
COLONIZATION HISTORY MASKS HABITAT PREFERENCES IN LOCAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF STREAM INSECTS (2001) (52)
Ecological Benefits of Riparian Reforestation in Urban Watersheds: Study Design and Preliminary Results (2000) (51)
Predator-prey interactions in a benthic stream community: a field test of flow-mediated refuges (1998) (51)
Flow effects on periphyton patches and their ecological consequences in a New Zealand river (2013) (50)
Experimental studies of exploitative competition in a grazing stream insect (1987) (46)
The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss (2013) (45)
The Story of Christianity (2011) (44)
Effects of pulsed flows on nuisance periphyton growths in rivers: a mesocosm study (2009) (43)
Stream ecosystem responses to spatially variable land cover: an empirically based model for developing riparian restoration strategies (2007) (42)
Large-scale Regional Variation in Diatom-water Chemistry Relationships: Rivers of the Eastern United States (2006) (41)
Determinants of ingestion rates in filter‐feeding larval blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) (1986) (40)
Feeding Territoriality in Aquatic Insects: Cost-Benefit Models and Experimental Tests (1987) (40)
Stream insects as passive suspension feeders: effects of velocity and food concentration on feeding performance (2002) (28)
Bridging Engineering, Ecological, and Geomorphic Science to Enhance Riverine Restoration: Local and National Efforts (2004) (25)
Building a Stronger Partnership between Ecological Research and Biological Monitoring (1994) (24)
Harvesting of benthic algae by territorial grazers: the potential for prudent predation (1991) (19)
Silk filaments enhance the settlement of stream insect larvae (2006) (18)
Matter, Monism, and Narrative: An Essay on the Metaphysics of Paradise Lost (1996) (17)
The Mirror of the Infinite: Gregory of Nyssa on the Vestigia Trinitatis (2002) (15)
On Shadow of Turning: On Divine Impassibility (2002) (14)
The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? (2005) (12)
Feeding postures of suspension-feeding larval black flies: the conflicting demands of drag and food acquisition (1991) (12)
Local modification of benthic flow environments by suspension-feeding stream insects (2004) (11)
A Gift Exceeding Every Debt: An Eastern Orthodox Appreciation of Anselm's Cur Deus Homo (1998) (10)
That All Shall Be Saved (2019) (9)
Larval settlement in benthic environments: the effects of velocity and bed element geometry (2011) (9)
An important confluence for stream ecology. (1996) (8)
The ‘Whole Humanity’: Gregory of Nyssa's Critique of Slavery in Light of His Eschatology (2001) (7)
Seeking shelter from the storm: responses of benthic stream invertebrates to natural and experimental floods (2015) (6)
The anti-theology of the body. (2005) (6)
Roles for scientists in community-based ecological restoration (2002) (5)
Entering the Watershed: A New Approach to Save America's River Ecosystems. B. Doppelt , M. Scurlock , C. Frissell , J. Karr (1994) (4)
John Wesley’s Biography and the Shaping of Methodist History (2012) (4)
Atheist Delusions (2017) (3)
Baptism and Cosmic Allegiance: A Brief Observation (2012) (3)
Scale‐dependent relationships between suspension‐feeding stream insects and water velocity in spatially heterogeneous flow environments (2016) (2)
Death, Final Judgment, and the Meaning of Life (2007) (2)
The Rivers Handbook: Hydrological and Ecological Principles. Volume 2. Peter Calow , Geoffrey E. Petts (1995) (2)
IN LOCAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF STREAM INSECTS (2001) (2)
The Bright Morning of the Soul: John of the Cross on Theosis (2003) (2)
Notes on the Concept of the Infinite in the History of Western Metaphysics (2011) (2)
Response from David Bentley Hart to McGuckin and Murphy (2007) (2)
The Dream-Child's Progress and Other Essays (2017) (1)
Response to James K. A. Smith, Lois Malcolm and Gerard Loughlin (2007) (1)
The Gospel According to Melpomene: Reflections on Rowan Williams's The Tragic Imagination (2018) (1)
Orthodox Theology and the Inevitability of Metaphysics (2021) (1)
The Illusionist: (2017) (1)
A Sense of Style: Beauty and the Christian Moral Life (2019) (1)
The Destiny of Christian Metaphysics (2009) (1)
Student Pugwash 1985 (1985) (1)
14. The Death and Birth of Worlds (2017) (0)
The Ecology and Management of Aquatic-Terrestrial Ecotones. R. J. Naiman , H. Décamps (1991) (0)
Do Experimental Studies of Patch Use Provide Evidence of Competition in Stream Insects (1986) (0)
Back Matter (1995) (0)
Impacts of dam removal on downstream benthic assemblages The effects of removing a small dam on benthic macroinvertebrate and algal assemblages in a Pennsylvania stream . 5 (0)
Back Matter (1992) (0)
RCN: Diadromous Species Restoration Research Network (DSRRN) (2014) (0)
Back Matter (1996) (0)
Back Matter (1994) (0)
Five criteria for ecological success (0)
Review Essay (2005) (0)
The Hidden and the Manifest: Essays in Theology and Metaphysics (2017) (0)
Death, Sacrifice, and Resurrection Part 2 (2011) (0)
The Devil’s March:: Creatio ex nihilo, the Problem of Evil, and a Few Dostoyevskian Meditations (2017) (0)
Orthodoxy in America and America's Orthodoxies (2018) (0)
Reviews (2016) (0)
The Writing of the Kingdom: Thirty‐Seven Aphorisms Towards an Eschatology of the Text (2000) (0)
Part I: The Question of an Eternal Hell (2019) (0)
On First Principles by Origen (2020) (0)
Paul L. Gavrilyuk, The Suffering of the Impassible God: The Dialectics of Patristic Thought. Oxford Early Christian Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii+210 pp. $80.00 (cloth). (2007) (0)
Theological Territories: A David Bentley Hart Digest (2020) (0)
God, Creation, and Evil: The Moral Meaning of creatio ex nihilo (2015) (0)
2. The Age of Freedom (2017) (0)
Christ’s Rabble (2021) (0)
Part II: Apokatastasis Four Meditations (2019) (0)
Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian Religious Thought by Jennifer Newsome Martin (review) (2018) (0)
1. The Gospel of Unbelief (2017) (0)
9. An Age of Darkness (2017) (0)

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