Light of Tabor : toward a monistic Christology / David Bentley Hart.

Author/creator Hart, David Bentley author.
Format Book
PublicationNotre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2025]
Copyright Date©2025
Descriptionxiv, 135 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Nature and genus -- Descent and ascent -- Human and divine -- Person and nature -- That Thou art -- Appendix 1. -- Did Paul have a theology of nature and grace? : a note on Romans 11:24 -- Appendix 2. -- Resurrection and judgment in the New Testament -- Appendix 3. -- The spiritual, the "psychical," and the material.
Abstract "For centuries, Christian theology has rested on a paradox. Beginning with the Council of Chalcedon in the fifth century, the major Christian traditions have held that Jesus Christ combines two distinct natures: he is fully God and, somehow, fully human. Yet this tenet has traditionally invited irresolvable metaphysical contradictions. David Bentley Hart delves deeply into the seemingly irresoluble tensions, providing the first theological attempt to show how the logic of the earliest churches’ angelomorphic Christology is continuous with later Chalcedonian orthodoxy. Hart draws on theologians from every epoch of Christian thought, from Origen to Sergei Bulgakov, while making free use of concepts from other spiritual traditions, such as Vedanta. The Light of Tabor proposes an approach to Christology that is thoroughly monistic, both as regards Being and as regards nature. Hart argues that the only coherent reading of the figure of Christ is one that fully embraces the essential unity of all things divine and natural through him, proposing an approach to Christology that affirms classical doctrine without retaining the dualistic presuppositions that have haunted theology since the age of the great councils." -- Publisher, inside flaps of dust jacket and website.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2025934554
ISBN9780268210410
ISBN0268210411 (hardcover)
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