Studies in Theological Style, Clerical Styles

Studies in Theological Style, Clerical Styles

Author: Hans Urs von Balthasar

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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"Volume 1 gives us a series of monographs designed to illustrate the different ways in which theologians have shaped their works. Volume 2 is a continuation of monographs in Volume 1 in which the aesthetical dimension of theology, its intrinsic beauty, is traced through some of the great Christian thinkers of modern times." -


Glory of the Lord VOL 2

Glory of the Lord VOL 2

Author: Hans Urs von Balthasar

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1985-01-01

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780567093240

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offers a series of earlier Christian theology when the aesthetic view was still held and appreciated. Drawing insights from some of the leading figures of the early Church such as Anselm, Augustine, Bonaventura, Denys and Irenaeus, von Balthasar presents his views with a freshness and vigour rarely excelled in contemporary theological writing about the Grand Tradition.


Glory of the Lord VOL 3

Glory of the Lord VOL 3

Author: Hans Urs von Balthasar

Publisher: T&T Clark

Published: 1986-05-01

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 9780567093257

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In this volume von Balthasar turns to the works of the lay theologians, the poets and the philosopher theologians who have kept alive the Grand Tradition of Christian theology in writings formally very different from the works of the Fathers and the great Scholastics. This volume contains studies of Dante, John of the Cross, Pascal, Hamann, Soloviev, Hopkins and Peguy.


The Glory of the Lord

The Glory of the Lord

Author: Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Publisher: Ignatius Press

Published: 2013-06-05

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 1681492024

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In this fourth volume of his magnnum opus, von Balthasar considers the metaphysical tradition of the contemplation of Being. He provides major studies of Homer, the Greek Tragedians, Plato and Plotinus and the development of this tradition in the Middle Ages. He then explores the analogy between the metaphysical vision of the Being and the Christian vision of the divine glory of the Trinity. The book is a remarkable attempt to rediscover the ancient vision of Being in all its awesomeness as the context within which the specifically Christian vision, rooted in God's gracious self-revelation, took form and was expressed.


Theo-Logic, Vol. 1

Theo-Logic, Vol. 1

Author: Hans Urs von Balthasar

Publisher: Ignatius Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0898707188

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Theo-Logic is the third and crowning part of the great trilogy of the masterwork of theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, following his first two parts, The Glory of the Lord and Theo-Drama. This is the third volume of Theo-Logic. Theo-Logic is a variation of theology, it being about not so much what man says about God, but what God speaks about himself. Balthasar does not address the truth about God until he first reflects on the beauty of God (The Glory of the Lord). Then he follows with his reflections on the great drama of our salvation and the goodness and mercy of the God who saves us (Theo-Drama). Now, in this work, he is ready to reflect on the truth that God reveals about himself, which is not something abstract or theoretical, but rather the concrete and mysterious richness of God's being as a personal and loving God.


The Analogy of Beauty

The Analogy of Beauty

Author: John Riches

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1986-03-10

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780567093516

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Examines the whole range of von Balthasar's theology and provides a clear introduction to his work.


A Generous Symphony

A Generous Symphony

Author: Christopher D. Denny

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1506418937

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Hans Urs von Balthasar, one of the preeminent theologians of Roman Catholic theology in the modern era, constructed a theological world suffused by the literary, a vision carried across over 16 volumes of his magnum opus. A Generous Symphony offers a balanced appraisal of Balthasar’s literary achievement and explicates Balthasar’s literary criticism as a distinctive theology of revelation, which offers possibilities for understanding how divine presence may be manifested outside the canonical boundaries of Christian tradition. The structure of A Generous Symphony is a chronological presentation of the Balthasarian canon of imaginative literature, which allows readers to see how social and historical interests guide Balthasar’s readings in the pre-Christian, medieval, and modern eras. While other books have examined the systematic theology of Balthasar, this book will examine the important question of how students of literature, like Balthasar, can be transformed into theologians by attending to the implicit presence of Christ in what Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem “As kingfishers catch fire . . .” called “the ten thousand places.” Balthasar’s deep investment in the uniqueness of Christian revelation is underlined, while, at the same time, his aesthetic sympathies cause him to invest literature with ‘quasi-sacramental’ status.


The Irreducibility of the Human Person

The Irreducibility of the Human Person

Author: Mark K. Spencer

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2022-03-25

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 0813235200

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"This book presents a philosophical portrait of human persons that depicts each way in which we are irreducible, with the goal of guiding the reader to perceive, wonder at, and love all the unique features of human persons. It builds this portrait by showing how claims from many strands of the Catholic tradition can be synthesized. These strands include Thomism, Scotism, phenomenology, personalism, nouvelle théologie, analytic philosophy, and Greek and Russian thought. The book focuses on how these traditions' claims are grounded in experience and on how they help us to perceive irreducible features of persons. This book also explores irreducible features of our subjectivity, senses, intellect, freedom, and affections, and of our souls, bodies, and activities"--


Hans Urs von Balthasar

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Author: David Schindler

Publisher: Ignatius Press

Published: 2011-03-29

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1681492237

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This collection of essays, gathered under the auspices of Communio editors, represents the most wide-ranging study of the life and work of Balthasar. The twenty contributors include highly respected theologians, philosophers and bishops from around the world such as Henri Cardinal de Lubac, S.J., Walter Kasper, Louis Dupre, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI), and Pope John Paul II. "...meeting Balthasar was for me the beginning of a lifelong friendship I can only be thankful for. Never again have I found anyone with such a comprehensive theological and humanistic education as Balthasar and de Lubac, and I cannot even begin to say how much I owe to my encounter with them." - Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)