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"...the incarnation is not something that happens to God, but is instead the reality of a man who is nothing but God happening in our midst as one of us." p49

teologs Dž. Milbanks aizmugurē uzrakstījis, ka izlasot Hartu, tagad lielāko daļu teoloģijas grāmatu varot izmest mizu kastē.

Finished Chapter 5, the last non-appendix chapter. Wraps up the book's thesis nicely. Will require a second read-through to fully appreciate (particularly in the Pneumatological arguments), but the case is compelling. DBH's utilization of Bulgakov has irrevocably changed the way I look at God, well beyond the naive logos prophorikos. I can put my angelomorphic speculations to bed, at least for now...

Finished Ch. 4. A complex read, it covered Bulgakov's theology of personhood, at once arguing against social or "3-self" strands of Trinitarianism, and for a universal concept of Personhood, at once identified with Bulgakov's Sophia and Ch. 3's prefigured notion of a _natural_ commonality between God and man. Will need to re-read to fully appreciate it, but already have I recovered some trust in "homoousious".

Yet another fantastic chaper. Many notes taken! This was an interesting push and pull for me between the Christological merits of a sound metaphysics and the existentialist appeal to aporia and equivocity nonetheless embodied. The chapter culminates in a fascinating argument for Hart's monistic view that, in solving personal devotional and theological perturbations, I can't help but feel partial to. Ready for Ch. 4.

Chapter 2 finished. Fantastic chapter.

Finished chapter 1.

Really poignant exploration of the New Testament's cosmology and metaphysics, suitable for the flourishing of demi-divine intermediaries, in contrast with the irrevocably altered post-Nicene understanding of God's transcendence. As Hart acknowledged, this confers some genuinely beautiful insight of God as at once the superior summo and interior intimo, but an undermining of God as the non aliud.