*Can anything contingent explain why anything exists at all?*
David Bentley Hart argues that reason ultimately points beyond all contingent realities toward an absolute source — a classical vision of God as necessary, undivided, and simple in a sense that means infinite fullness rather than lack.
0:00 Why Contingency Points Beyond Matter
1:43 What an Absolute Reality Cannot Be
3:49 Divine Simplicity and the Meaning of No Parts
5:10 Why Simplicity Means Fullness, Not Lack
6:48 Why Goodness and Beauty Converge in God
*David Bentley Hart* is an American philosopher, theologian, essayist, cultural commentator, fiction author, religious studies scholar. Reviewers have commented on Hart’s baroque prose and provocative rhetoric in over one thousand essays, reviews, and papers as well as twenty-four books.
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