Very excited for the full work Thank you!

People watching this need to understand that Hart isn't an evangelical, nor a fundamentalist. This means that Scripture is not perfect and that is subject to negotiation. Paul is not perfect. He has a scholarly, historical, and open minded approach to many things--although highly opinionated. He also clarifies here that he could be wrong. You shouldn't watch or read Hart if you just want your boilerplate Western Christianity.

I'm guessing DBH is not familiar with modern dating apps.

YOUR response was so spot on that I personally forgive you for your romantic indulgence. Many many decades ago nuns afforded me an introduction to what I would later learn was something called sadism. I really believe the tragedy is that we overestimate the capacity for empathy. The faith presupposes overgenerously. How can you be a Christian without the charism of empathy?

I did not think it was Dr Hart's practice to grasp onto and magnify shibboleths of the woke brigade. So, I'm proven wrong again.

I get the impression that Christ himself wouldn't measure up to Hart's standards...

I loved DBH before this. I have fallen in love with him now.

I'm an Evangelical, and although Pastors are not required to be married family men, that is what is generally expected in every congregation. For exactly the reasons Dr. Hart explains. But they would never accept a woman Pastor, the congregation would get up and leave.

bad women priests are a thing.. Narcissistic and damaged women are drawn to the priesthood..Saying that, so are narcissistic and damaged men. But both hurt you and women have their own peculiar ways of doing that. Personally glad we have both but would be even more glad of a culture which enables and praises self examination and genuine humility, is wise to human corruption and ACTS, and rejects a power ladder

Jesus is our High Priest... Religious priesthoods are a comfort zone for the lazy and vain...

Did you ask him why he thinks the Logos became incarnate as a man and not a woman?

A female priest who believes in hell is just as bad as a male priest who believes in hell. "Now it's priests of both sexes I don't listen to." -Bill Hicks

This is such a telling interview

Clearly has little experience of women.

I like a lot of what DBH has to say, and I agree that bad priests can be extremely dangerous, but how he can make the step from his very tentative, "in general" statements (some of which also seem prejudiced, just in the other direction) to a willingness to undo hundreds and hundreds of years of tradition is very obscure to me.

I want to see DBH and Mooji talk

Orthobros really triggered by this one. It’s amazing how frightened they are of everything. Especially women.

Hart, the king of ego, should listen to his own views on women and put himself second to Tradition for once.

If women were generally better suited to be leaders, then most leaders would probably be women by now. If women[generally] made better leaders why hare we not living in a matriarchal utopia by now? Because they are as flawed as men and not better leaders. If a particular woman has a certain degree of stoicism, a fighting spirit, is not a slave to agreeableness, does not compromise the truth to placate people's feelings[which is worse for everybody], is comfortable with healthy conflict, then I would rather be led by that kind of woman than led a man lacking those virtues. But I am wary of being led by people in general, it is difficult enough to defer to wise and mature people in my life, I would rather not be led by power-hungry strangers, especially those who crave to be in positions of "leadership". If people just want to humbly serve people, who says that they need to be some sort of clergy to do that? I find it suspicious when a person wants to be in such positions, a person who desires such an influence over others should be scrutinized.

This guy just doesn't get it.

No such thing as female priests. Christ chose the twelve.

Lucky? What an odd choice of words.

Oh, for goodness sake! He's finally gone off the deep end. He has become such an embarrassment to the Orthodox Church. As such, would our bishops please get rid of this man. Let him go back to Anglicanism, where his equally as noxious brothers still reside. Really, good grief. I mean, did he ever really, truly leave Anglicanism behind? He's simply become a church unto himself at this point, which is quite tragic when one considers how brilliant he has always been in his defense of traditional Christian belief. Time for him to either repent or be excommunicated. I would much rather see him humble himself (which he's always struggled with, admittedly) and remain in the Orthodox Church. And before anyone begins ranting at me, I actually know David. He was my professor at Providence College when I was doing graduate-level theology there, while at the same time we were both attending the same Orthodox parish in RI. In spite of his brilliance, he was always a very odd, socially awkward man. Also, in light of this video I think it may be appropriate to mention that he was commonly quite disrespectful to our priest, who was one of the kindest, gentlest, and saintliest priests I have ever known; he had more humility in his index finger than DBH will ever be able demonstrate, head-to-toe. Yet, he is here babbling on about what a good priest is, and is not? Don't encourage this man, but pray for his repentance. His is not the mind of the Church, therefore he is not of the mind of Christ. Avoid him!

I love DBH so much

Wow. Surprising take on women compared to men. I thought he was smarter than that. 😋😂

it's clearly stated in the bible - a female priest or pastor is forbidden. ...but yet some self righteous Christian with an intellect beard thinks that is wrong, GOD is wrong, GOD doesn't know what he is talking about....this is how things get corrupt. the arrogance of mankind. So many times in my personal life I thought so many bible principals or verses were silly, outdated, if not offensive, and later when you finally it solids you realize why GOD forbids certain things. There is an order to GODs kingdom, the creator that created all things, the majesty of the heavens, the GLORY of his love and mercy, and we still think we know better. We still think we can do it better. ..amazing.

Wow he's so wise he's teaching heresy condemed during the time of the apostles. We should all listen to him instead of all those lame doctrines the saints built the church upon am I right guys

😄 *Promosm*

Once again, DBH says out loud what we all know to be true

Wow! Someone with some wisdom......someone with eyes

Very disappointed at such a low brow answer from an otherwise intelligent man

Yikes, I'm afraid DBH has gone woke.

I was so worried when I clicked on this video because I really like this guy. Such a relief to see that he's on the right side of this issue! It really is way past time that Christianity move beyond its (often misogynistic) authoritarianism and its advocation of cultural stasis. The creative God created us to be creative, not to try to take His place as judges of right and wrong, whether those judges be of the relativist kind or else the authoritarian static cultural kind. We are meant to creatively guess what is true, good and beautiful, and then let God show us which ones of those guesses work, at least for now, and in that way we make progess in our divinely-ordained mission to manifest His Holy Spirit, His character, in the universe.

A priest is a man....do you mean priestess?

I'm actually inclined to disagree because the kind of assertiveness that leadership necessarily entails is not something that comes as instinctively to women. Higher agreeableness is a virtue in many ways, but it's a trait that can very easily make you fall into the dominate cultural zeitgeist if not tempered. A fundmental reason for why the major world faiths have always been patriarchal to some degree or another is because humans are an inherently patriarchal species. I think any attempt to discount that is the height of naïveté.

Fantastic. Would love to see some on God's unrelenting love for queer people.

give me a break.... this is ridiculoues

Lol how about we stop arguing about our own logic and rely on the rules laid out by the apostles and scriptures??? You are not christian if you dont.

Good thing we listen to the Bible and not the opinion of David Bentley Hart.

This is upsetting

Super gay!!!! Extremely!