Christianity is the midwife of nihilism not because it is itself nihilistic, but because it is too powerful in its embrace of the world and all of the world’s mystery and beauty; and so to reject Christianity now is, of necessity, to reject everything except the barren anonymity of spontaneous subjectivity… . Where now can we go? Everything is Christ’s… . The Christian God has taken up everything into himself; all the treasures of ancient wisdom, all the splendor of creation, every good thing has been assumed into the story of the incarnate God, and every stirring toward transcendence is soon recognized by the modern mind—weary of God—as leading back toward faith.
David Bentley Hart, quoted by Matthew Milliner in his essay in Image #74. (via giftsoutright)

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