Methexis Institute

David Bentley Hart 'All Things are Fully of Gods' Discussion Online & In-Person, Austin Texas Seminary of the Southwest @mySSW 1 PM CDT, Saturday, July 11, 2026 Register to join: tinyurl.com/DBH-Methexis

We thank all who attended the first annual Methexis Lecture with David Bentley Hart today at @mySSW. With over 30 guests in person and many more joining online, we were had an overwhelming turnout. The unedited livestreamed video is now available: youtube.com/watch?v=zkux1L…

Join us at 1 PM CDT for the first annual Methexis Lecture with David Bentley Hart. eventbrite.com/e/1991847865585 youtube.com/live/zkux1LgZW…

I am delighted to share the Fall 2026 term card for the Methexis Institute 'Forbidden Books' reading group.

Join us tomorrow or the first annual Methexis Lecture by David Bentley Hart - online with the links copied below, or in-person at 1 pm CDT at the Seminary of the Southwest, Rm. B 104. eventbrite.com/e/1991847865585 youtube.com/live/zkux1LgZW…

Don't miss the first annual Methexis Lecture by David Bentley Hart - online with the links copied below, or in-person at 1 pm CDT at the Seminary of the Southwest, Rm. B 104. eventbrite.com/e/1991847865585 youtube.com/live/zkux1LgZW…

Fall 2026 Term Card for the Methexis Institute 'Forbidden Books' Reading Group

You are invited to attend the first annual Methexis Lecture featuring David Bentley Hart on the topic of his new book, All Things Are Full of Gods. youtube.com/watch?v=zkux1L…

David Bentley Hart 'All Things are Fully of Gods' Discussion Online & In-Person, Austin Texas Seminary of the Southwest @mySSW 1 PM CDT, Saturday, July 11, 2026 Register to join: tinyurl.com/DBH-Methexis

I am honored to speak at the 'Nature Lost, Nature Regained' conference, co-sponsored by @MethexisATX. I will give a paper 'Angel-Oriented-Ontology: Angelic Physics after Speculative Realism', on how we can recover the speculative angelology after Meillasoux, Harman & Grant.

Methexis Institute 2026 Annual Dinner @MethexisATX

Methexis Institute 2026 Annual Dinner

Methexis Institute 2026 Annual Dinner @MethexisATX

David Bentley Hart 'All Things are Fully of Gods' Discussion Online & In-Person, Austin Texas Seminary of the Southwest @mySSW 1 PM CDT, Saturday, July 11, 2026 Register to join: tinyurl.com/DBH-Methexis

I am delighted to announce that my article 'Hegel’s Dialectical Syllogism: A Contribution to Theology of Logic' has been accepted for publication in Logica Universalis, a peer-reviewed academic journal that studies universal logic and dialectic. Abstract: Hegel’s dialectical syllogism links his logic to his theology. For the middle term of the syllogism in logic is essentially mediated by the absolute Idea of Logic, as ultimately by the self-return of Logic in Spirit, and the Holy Trinity of the Christian Religion in a trinitarian ontology of logic, that is, a trinitarian logic. This link of logic to theology signals the clearest contribution to what I designate as ‘theology of logic’. Theology of logic is a theological interpretation of logic: in contrast to philosophy of logic, it asks the prior question of the contingent grounds for our very belief in logic. Hegel has, in the Syllogism chapter of his Logic, developed a post-Aristotelian dialectical syllogism, in which the Concept dynamically differentiates even as it sublates its extremes to produce new knowledge. This dialectical syllogism is distinguished as a dynamic self-mediating cycle of judgments, where indifferently connected judgments are circuitously united through the reciprocal intermediation of a shared middle term. Since mediation and extremity mutually coincide, each syllogism may be intermediated by each other. This exchange of judgments further implies an interchangeability of concepts, where each subordinate concept interchangeably cycles within every superordinate concept, in dialectical triads consisting of a self-dirempting universal, a coincident opposition of mutually related particulars, and a reconciling concrete singular. Every such dialectical triad of concepts can then cycle around one another, through such interchangeable relations of mediation and extremity, like a ‘circle of circles’, in which the intermediating centre and the furthermost periphery forever coincide. Hegel presents the Holy Trinity in the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion as the absolute triad of all triads in each syllogism, which comprises this ‘absolute syllogism’ of the entire system of philosophy. Since, finally, the system itself is an absolute syllogism, and this absolute syllogism is the economic procession of the Trinity, every conceptual category of the system can ultimately be sublated and re-posited in and through the logic, dialectic, and syllogisticity of the Holy Trinity. The Christian Trinity thus not only figuratively corresponds to but truly coincides with the logical moments of every concept, and any thought. In answer to this absolute theological questioning of logic, Hegel shows logic to be ontology, ontology to be theology, and theology to be trinitarian, in a trinitarian ontology of logic, that is, a trinitarian logic.

David Bentley Hart 'All Things are Fully of Gods' Discussion Online & In-Person, Austin Texas Seminary of the Southwest @mySSW 1 PM CDT, Saturday, July 11, 2026 Register to join: tinyurl.com/DBH-Methexis

Join us tomorrow for this last Forbidden Books reading group of the 2025-26 year.

At 1 pm CST on Sunday, 14th June, the Methexis Institute Forbidden Books reading group will host a discussion of Iain Hamilton Grant's 'Philosophy of Nature After Schelling' (2006) Link to join: meet.google.com/hoh-kwga-xth

At 1 pm CST on Sunday, 7th June, the Methexis Institute Forbidden Books reading group will host a discussion of Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder's 'Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives'. (2016) Link to join: meet.google.com/boy-uzkx-yzm

Dr. Paul Tyson joined the Methexis Institute co-directors Dr. Ryan Haecker and Rev'd Dr. Matthew Boulter for an interview about his recent books 'A Christian Theology of Science' (2022) and 'Gender Theory Is Wrong' (2026). youtu.be/ssWOVlhNe3Q?si…