David Bentley Hart - A radical new Christology proposal
David Bentley Hart
96.11
22 October 2025
26 October 2025
This episode features Dr. David Bentley Hart discussing his book, The Light of Tabor: Notes Towards a Monist Christology. Hart explains his theological project as deconstructing centuries of Christological debate to move past dualistic tensions that separate the divine and human. He argues for a "radically monistic" understanding of the Incarnation, where Christ's perfect human identity is wholly and eternally transparent to the Logos.
DBH's youtube channel : @leavesinthewind7441
DBH's substack - https://substack.com/@davidbentleyhart
My quick summary of DBH's lectures - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaxtuJ79c24
Commentary Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7bh6_p2a6U&t=1806s
Commentary Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyNBBEXiW2c&t=2987s
Commentary Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84jBq2yTPXg&t=4104s
Commentary Part 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-iQInuBv88
We mention Jordan Daniel Wood, Arius, Eunomius, Paul the Apostle, John the Apostle, Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine of Hippo, Philip the Chancellor, John of St. Palmus, Aristotle, Carl Bart, Meister Eckhart, Sergei Bulgakov, Vladimir Solovyov, Sarah O'Rean, Yakob Boehme, Martin Heidegger, John Milbank, Cyril of Alexandria, Pope Leo I, Gregory of Nazianzus, John Behr and more.
00:00:01 Introduction & The Perilous Topic
00:08:41 Method: Deconstruction & Allegory
00:16:17 Early "Angelomorphic" Christology
00:31:44 Critique of Dualism & Hypostasis
00:42:14 The Radical Monism of Being
00:55:53 The Incarnation as Intelligible Guide
01:05:50 Jesus: Not Achieving, but Being Logos
01:26:57 Transparency, Will, and Deification
