The Way That Abides Forever

In his 2024 book All Things Are Full of Gods, the renowned philosopher of religion David Bentley Hart wrote a Socratic dialogue unlike any other. The premise? The ancient Greek gods gather together in a beautiful garden to discuss the nature of being in a conversation largely driven and moderated by Psyche, the wife of Cupid. In their 500-page dialogue, they telescope into a whole world of ideas spanning from Greco-Roman antiquity to the Eastern mystics to, eventually, modern philosophers too, all with the aim of proving Hart’s key argument: the things seen are not all that there is. Scientific materialism is a flawed and unnecessarily limited perspective. The things unseen are, in fact, much more real than what we can touch, feel, taste.