The experience of god being consciousness bliss david bentley hart tom pile audible studios amazonfr livres. The experience god being consciousness bliss new haven ct yale university press 2013 365pp 2500 cloth isbn 978 0 300 16684 2 reviewed by bryan c hollon department of theology malone university for christian scholars review summer 2014 in recent years atheist critics of religion have been quite aggressive in working to get their message out richard dawkins daniel dennett . Constructing his argument around three principal metaphysical moments being consciousness and bliss the author demonstrates an essential continuity between our fundamental experience of reality and the ultimate reality to which that experience inevitably pointsthoroughly dismissing such blatant misconceptions as the deists concept of god as well as the fundamentalist view of the bible . Given this state of affairs the experience of god is a desperately needed book and a welcome gift to the the spiritually and intellectually curious of all persuasions david bentley hart makes a crucial distinction between the gods supposed beings who created the world and control nature and god who is being itself and he lucidly demonstrates the limitations of naturalism and scientific