David Bentley Hart bibliography


This is a list of books, selected essays, and selected recordings by David Bentley Hart in reverse chronological order.

Books

Author

The Light of Tabor: Toward a Monistic Christology. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. 2025. All Things Are Full of Gods: The Mysteries of Mind and Life. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2024. Prisms, Veils: A Book of Fables. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. 2024. The Mystery of the Green Star. David Bentley Hart and Patrick Robert Hart. Brooklyn, NY: Angelico Press. 2023. You Are Gods: On Nature and Supernature. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. Tradition and Apocalypse: An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. 2022. Kenogaia . Brooklyn, NY: Angelico Press. 2021. Roland In Moonlight. Brooklyn, NY: Angelico Press. 2021.Theological Territories: A David Bentley Hart Digest. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. 2020. The Mystery of Castle MacGorilla. With Patrick Robert Hart. New York: Angelico Press. 2019. That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press: 2019.The Hidden and the Manifest: Essays in Theology and Metaphysics. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. 2017.The Dream-Child's Progress and Other Essays. New York: Angelico Press. 2017.A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans: 2016.The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press: 2013.The Devil and Pierre Gernet: Stories. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans: 2012. Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.In the Aftermath: Provocations and Laments. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans: 2008. The Story of Christianity: An Illustrated History of 2000 Years of the Christian Faith. London: Quercus: 2007.The Doors of the Sea. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans: 2005.The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans: 2003. Beauty, Violence, and Infinity: A Question Concerning Christian Rhetoric. University of Virginia: ProQuest Dissertations Publishing: 1997.

Translator

The New Testament: A Translation. Yale University Press: 2017.
  • Erich Przywara, Analogia Entis: Metaphysics: Original Structure and Universal Rhythm. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans: 2014. In collaboration with John R. Betz.
  • "Was liegt jenseits des Kapitalismus? Eine christliche Untersuchung" in Pflug Magazin 3.
  • "The Peach Blossom Spring: A Translation "] by Tao Yuanming. Leaves in the Wind. October 31, 2021.

Articles and printed interviews (selected)

  • "What we think we know about God" in The Christian Century
  • "How to Write English Prose" in The Lamp Magazine
  • "Reality Minus" in The New Atlantis
  • "Three Cheers for Socialism: Christian Love & Political Practice" in Commonweal.
  • "Divorce, Annulment, & Communion" in Commonweal.
  • "What Lies Beyond Capitalism? A Christian Exploration"] in Plough Quarterly 21.
  • "Quentin Tarantino's Cosmic Justice" in The New York Times.
  • "Can We Please Relax About 'Socialism'?" in The New York Times.
  • "The New York Yankees Are a Moral Abomination" in The New York Times.
  • "Everything you know about the Gospel of Paul is likely wrong" in Aeon
  • "Christians and the Death Penalty" in Commonweal.
  • "Are Christians Supposed to be Communists?" in from the Wayback Machine. The New York Times.
  • "The Illusionist" in The New Atlantis
  • "From a Vanished Library" in First Things.
  • 'We need to talk about God', Church Times, February 2016.
  • "Christ's Rabble" in Commonweal.
  • "Habetis Papam", First Things.
  • "Saint Origen", First Things.
  • "The Myth of Schism" in Clarion Journal.
  • "Therapeutic Superstition" in First Things.
  • "Saint Sakyamuni" in First Things
  • Response to critiques of The Beauty of the Infinite by Francesca Murphy and John A. McGuckin, Scottish Journal of Theology 60 : 95-101.
  • "Daniel Dennett Hunts the Snark" in First Things 169.
  • Contribution to "Theology as Knowledge: A Symposium" in First Things 163 : 21–27.
  • "The Lively God of Robert Jenson" in First Things 156 : 28–34.
  • "The Anti-Theology of the Body" in The New Atlantis 9 : 65–73.
  • "The Soul of a Controversy" in The Wall Street Journal.
  • "Tsunami and Theodicy" in First Things 151 : 6–9.
  • "The Laughter of the Philosophers" in First Things 149 : 31–38. A review loosely structured around The Humor of Kierkegaard by Thomas C. Oden, containing a long excursus on Johann Georg Hamann.
  • "God or Nothingness" in I Am the Lord Your God: Christian Reflections on the Ten Commandments Carl E. Braaten and Christopher Seitz, eds. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005: 55–76.
  • "The Offering of Names: Metaphysics, Nihilism, and Analogy" in Reason and the Reasons of Faith. Reinhard Hütter and Paul J. Griffiths, eds. London: T. & T. Clark, 2005: 55–76.
  • "Tremors of Doubt" in The Wall Street Journal. This article was the seed for the book The Doors of the Sea.
  • "Ecumenical Councils of War" in Touchstone.
  • "The Pornography Culture" in The New Atlantis 6 : 82–89.
  • "Freedom and Decency" in First Things 144 : 35–41.
  • "An Orthodox Easter" in The Wall Street Journal .
  • "Religion in America: Ancient & Modern", The New Criterion.
  • "A Most Partial Historian" in First Things 138 : 34–41. A review of Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England Volume III: Accommodations by Maurice Cowling.
  • "Christ and Nothing" in First Things 136 : 47–57.
  • "The Bright Morning of the Soul: John of the Cross on Theosis", Pro Ecclesia : 324–45.
  • "Thine Own of Thine Own: the Orthodox Understanding of Eucharistic Sacrifice" in Rediscovering the Eucharist: Ecumenical Considerations Roch A. Kereszty, ed. : 142–169.
  • "The Mirror of the Infinite: Gregory of Nyssa on the Vestigia Trinitatis", Modern Theology 18.4 : 542–56.
  • "No Shadow of Turning: On Divine Impassibility", Pro Ecclesia : 184–206.
  • Contribution to "The Future of the Papacy: A Symposium" in First Things : 28–36.
  • "The 'Whole Humanity': Gregory of Nyssa's Critique of Slavery in Light of His Eschatology", Scottish Journal of Theology 54.1 : 51–69.
  • "Analogy" in Elsevier Concise Encyclopaedia of Religion and Language.
  • "The Writing of the Kingdom: Thirty-Seven Aphorisms towards an Eschatology of the Text", Modern Theology : 181–202.
  • "A Gift Exceeding Every Debt: An Eastern Orthodox Appreciation of Anselm's Cur Deus Homo", Pro Ecclesia 7.3 : 333–348.
  • "Matter, Monism, and Narrative: An Essay on the Metaphysics of Paradise Lost" Milton Quarterly : 16–27.

Book reviews (selected)

  • "Mind Over Matter" in Commonweal. A review of Lloyd P. Gerson's translation of The Enneads by Plotinus.
  • "Shock of the Real" in First Things. A long essay-review of Natasha Lehrer's translation of "Équipée" by Victor Segalen.
  • "Empson in the East" in First Things. A review of "The Face of the Buddha" by William Empson.
  • "Our Atheism is Different" in Commonweal. A review of Battling the Gods by Tim Whitmarsh.
  • "Dante Decluttered: A review of The Divine Comedy" in First Things. A review of Clive James' translation of "The Divine Comedy".
  • "Inside the mind of the Archbishop of Canterbury" in The Times Literary Supplement. A review of Rowan Williams's "Wrestling with Angels," edited by Mike Higton.
  • "Con Man" in The New Criterion : 124. A review of "The Theocons: Secular America under Siege" by Damon Linker.
  • "Beyond Disbelief" in The New Criterion : 78–81. A review of "The Twilight of Atheism" by Alister McGrath.
  • "Roland Redivivus" in First Things 150 : 44–48. A review of Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo, translated by Charles Stanley Ross.
  • "The Laughter of the Philosophers" in First Things 149 : 31–38. A review loosely structured around The Humor of Kierkegaard by Thomas C. Oden, containing a long excursus on Johann Georg Hamann.
  • "When the Going was Bad" in First Things 143 : 50–53. A review of Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writing by Evelyn Waugh.
  • "Sheer Extravagant Violence" in First Things 139 : 64–69. A review of Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Peter Constantine.
  • "A Most Partial Historian" in First Things 138 : 34–41. A review of Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England Volume III: Accommodations by Maurice Cowling.
  • Review of Gianni Vattimo's Belief, The Journal of Religion 82.1 : 132-133.
  • "Israel and the Nations" in First Things 105 : 51–54. A review of Church and Israel After Christendom: The Politics of Election by Scott Bader–Saye.
  • "Review Essay: On Catherine Pickstock's After Writing", Pro Ecclesia : 367–372.
  • "Beyond Reductionism" in First Things 87 : 55–57. A review of Religious Mystery and Rational Reflection by Louis Dupre.

Recordings (selected)

  • "Ep. 108 David Bentley Hart responds to claims of heresy by Fr. James Dominic Rooney regarding the necessity of all being saved." on the Grace Saves All podcast with David Artman. January 2023.
  • "David Bentley Hart on Grace, with Jennifer Newsome Martin."
  • "You Are Gods with David Bentley Hart and John Milbank."
  • "Orthodox Scholars Preach: Sunday of the Publican & the Pharisee - David Bentley Hart." with the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and The Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University.