Kevin Hart

Kevin Hart, Jo Rae Wright University Distinguished Professor at Duke Divinity School and author on theology, phenomenology, and literature, explores contemplation as a way of reading and living. He traces contemplative roots from Augustine to Husserl and Romantic poets. He links poetry, phenomenology, and slow reading to disciplined practices that reveal fresh perception and the particularity of experience.

Kevin Hart, Jo Rae Wright University Distinguished Professor at Duke Divinity School and author of Lands of Likeness, explores a hermeneutic of contemplation rooted in theology, poetry, and philosophy. He traces contemplative reading from Augustine and the Romantics to Husserl and modern poets. The conversation highlights contemplation versus suspicion, phenomenology, poetic attention, and the discipline of slow, attentive reading.