The secret irony pervading these arguments [on objections to the goodness of God] is that they would never have occurred to consciences that had not in some profound way been shaped by the moral universe of a Christian culture.
David Bentley Hart Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 1, Section 2, location 144
- work
- The Doors of the Sea (2005)
- year
- 2005
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