@article{ref1,
title="Questions About the Perception of “Christian Truth”: On the Affective Effects of Sin",
journal="New Blackfriars",
year="2007",
author="Smith, James K. A.",
volume="88",
number="1017",
pages="585-593",
abstract="This article engages David Bentley Hart's critique of coercive “demonstration” in apologetics in favor of Gospel proclamation in the mode of “persuasion.” More specifically, I evaluate Hart's articulation of persuasion as a discourse that is primarily aesthetic and traffics primarily in beauty. After expressing an appreciation for Hart's critique of the traditional apologetics of demonstration, I suggest that Hart's own proposal still has elements of an “apologetic”—a kind of natural “aesthetic” theology, but a natural theology nonetheless. I conclude by extrapolating the Reformed critique of natural theology (based on the “noetic effects of sin”) to include a critique of Hart's aesthetic quasi-natural theology by providing an account of the “affective” effects of sin.<p />",
language="",
issn="0028-4289",
doi="10.1111/j.1741-2005.2007.00185.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-2005.2007.00185.x"
}