Analogia Entis: Metaphysics: Original Structure and Universal Rhythm

Analogia Entis: Metaphysics: Original Structure and Universal Rhythm

ISBN-10:
0802868592
ISBN-13:
9780802868596
Pub. Date:
02/08/2014
Publisher:
Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
ISBN-10:
0802868592
ISBN-13:
9780802868596
Pub. Date:
02/08/2014
Publisher:
Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Analogia Entis: Metaphysics: Original Structure and Universal Rhythm

Analogia Entis: Metaphysics: Original Structure and Universal Rhythm

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Overview

Although Erich Przywara (1889-1972) was one of the preeminent Catholic theologians of his time and a profound influence on such people as Hans Urs von Balthasar and Joseph Ratzinger, he has remained virtually unknown in North America. This volume includes Przywara's groundbreaking Analogia Entis, originally published in 1932, and his subsequent essays on the concept analogia entis -- the analogy between God and creation -- which has currency in philosophical and theological circles today.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780802868596
Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date: 02/08/2014
Series: Ressourcement: Retrieval and Renewal in Catholic Thought (RRRCT)
Pages: 652
Sales rank: 532,215
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Erich Przywara (1889-1972) was an influential German Jesuit theologian who himself was strongly influenced by Augustine, Aquinas, Newman, and the phenomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl and Max Scheler.

John Betz teaches systematic theology at University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

David Bentley Hart is a philosopher, theologian, writer, and cultural commentator who has taught at the University of Virginia, Duke University, and the University of Notre Dame. His other books include The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth; A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays; and Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, which was awarded the Michael Ramsey Prize in Theology in 2011.

Table of Contents

Translators' Preface xi

Preface to the 1962 Edition xviii

From the Preface to the First Edition of Analogia Entis I (1932) xx

Translator's Introduction John R. Betz 1

1 Erich Przywara (1889-1972): Life and Writings 12

2 The Prior Philosophical and Theological History of the analogia entis 30

3 The analogia entis in Przywara's Early Work (1922-26) 43

4 The Analogia Entis (1932) 61

5 Philosophical and Theological Criticisms of the analogia entis 74

Part I Original Structure 117

Section 1 Metaphysics as Such

§1 Meta-Noetics and Meta-Ontics 119

§2 Metaphysical Transcendentalism and Transcendental Metaphysics 125

§3 A Priori and A Posteriori Metaphysics 132

§4 Philosophical and Theological Metaphysics 155

Section 2 Analogia Entis

§5 Logos, Logic, Dialectic, Analogy 192

§6 The Grounding of Analogy as Analogia Entis in the Principle of Non-Contradiction 198

§7 The Scope of the Problem of the Analogia Entis 238

§8 The Analogia Entis as a Principle 307

Part II Universal Rhythm

1 Philosophies of Essence and Existence 317

2 The Scope of Analogy as a Fundamental Catholic Form 348

3 Philosophy as a Problem 400

4 Metaphysics, Religion, Analogy 409

5 Image, Likeness, Symbol, Mythos, Mysterium, Logos 430

6 Phenomenology, Realogy, Relationology 463

7 Man, World, God, Symbol 480

8 The Religious Gnoseology of St. Augustine 501

9 Between Metaphysics and Christianity 520

10 Beautiful, Sacred, Christian 537

11 Imago Dei: On the Theological Message of Max Picard 556

12 Primal Christian Terms: Kerygma, Mysterium, Kairos, Oikonomia 570

13 Time, Space, Eternity 583

*14 Edith Stein and Simone Weil: Two Fundamental Philosophical Themes 596

*15 Husserl and Heidegger 613

Index 623

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From the Publisher

Alasdair MacIntyre
-- University of Notre Dame
"The publication of this excellent translation of Erich Przywara's difficult and contentious book is an important event. Analogia Entis poses an inescapable problem for theologians, that of how we must understand the relationship of God's being to human beings in order for us to be able to talk about God. Przywara was a notable influence on some of the greatest Protestant and Catholic theologians of the twentieth century. We need to learn from him if we are to understand them."

John Milbank
-- University of Nottingham
"At last English readers have available a translation of one of the great masterworks of twentieth-century theology and philosophy, giving them a much better sense of the course of both Catholic and Protestant thought since the inter-war period. John Betz and David Bentley Hart have done a remarkable job of rendering Przywara's Analogia Entis into highly readable English without losing any of the sense or nuances of the German original."

Reinhard Hütter
-- Duke Divinity School
"Arguably the most brilliant and simultaneously most enigmatic Catholic intellectual of the earlier part of the twentieth century, Erich Przywara argued eye to eye with Edmund Husserl, Max Scheler, and Martin Heidegger, challenged Karl Barth, and through his famous lectures inspired a host of influential Catholic thinkers. . . . Finally, his magnum opus, Analogia Entis, is available in lucid English prose -- an intellectual event of the first order. We are deeply indebted to John Betz and David Bentley Hart for this splendid labor of love."

David Burrell
-- University of Notre Dame
"Be prepared to let a predilection for poetry spice austere argument, to retrieve the pristine dynamic of analogy as Aquinas invariably used it to render philosophy as a handmaid of faith."

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