Christ and Analogy: The Christocentric Metaphysics of Hans Urs von Balthasar

As one of the pillars of the nouvelle thologie movement, a main influence upon the Second Vatican Council, and one of the few figures to complete a full-scale multi-volume systematics, Hans Urs von Balthasar is undoubtedly one of the towering figures of twentieth-century theology. Until now, the structural undergirding of von Balthasars main contribution, a weighty 15-volume, three-part triptych dogmatics, has not been assessed. In this volume, the author presents an analysis of von Balthasars work in dogmatics and provides the structural linchpin for understanding the whole of this massive (and massively important) systematic theology by reconstructing the metaphysics of von Balthasar. Taking the person of Jesus Christ as the metaphysical starting point, the project highlights the fundamental connections to key doctrinal, historical, and philosophical issues. This is a critical volume for professors, scholars, and students in systematic theology, philosophical theology, and the study of twentieth-century Catholic and Protestant theology and history.

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Christ and Analogy: The Christocentric Metaphysics of Hans Urs von Balthasar

As one of the pillars of the nouvelle thologie movement, a main influence upon the Second Vatican Council, and one of the few figures to complete a full-scale multi-volume systematics, Hans Urs von Balthasar is undoubtedly one of the towering figures of twentieth-century theology. Until now, the structural undergirding of von Balthasars main contribution, a weighty 15-volume, three-part triptych dogmatics, has not been assessed. In this volume, the author presents an analysis of von Balthasars work in dogmatics and provides the structural linchpin for understanding the whole of this massive (and massively important) systematic theology by reconstructing the metaphysics of von Balthasar. Taking the person of Jesus Christ as the metaphysical starting point, the project highlights the fundamental connections to key doctrinal, historical, and philosophical issues. This is a critical volume for professors, scholars, and students in systematic theology, philosophical theology, and the study of twentieth-century Catholic and Protestant theology and history.

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Christ and Analogy: The Christocentric Metaphysics of Hans Urs von Balthasar

Christ and Analogy: The Christocentric Metaphysics of Hans Urs von Balthasar

by Junius Johnson
Christ and Analogy: The Christocentric Metaphysics of Hans Urs von Balthasar

Christ and Analogy: The Christocentric Metaphysics of Hans Urs von Balthasar

by Junius Johnson

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As one of the pillars of the nouvelle thologie movement, a main influence upon the Second Vatican Council, and one of the few figures to complete a full-scale multi-volume systematics, Hans Urs von Balthasar is undoubtedly one of the towering figures of twentieth-century theology. Until now, the structural undergirding of von Balthasars main contribution, a weighty 15-volume, three-part triptych dogmatics, has not been assessed. In this volume, the author presents an analysis of von Balthasars work in dogmatics and provides the structural linchpin for understanding the whole of this massive (and massively important) systematic theology by reconstructing the metaphysics of von Balthasar. Taking the person of Jesus Christ as the metaphysical starting point, the project highlights the fundamental connections to key doctrinal, historical, and philosophical issues. This is a critical volume for professors, scholars, and students in systematic theology, philosophical theology, and the study of twentieth-century Catholic and Protestant theology and history.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781451465235
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date: 09/01/2013
Series: Emerging Scholars
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 454 KB

About the Author

Junius Johnson is a lecturer at Yale Divinity School and a research fellow at the Rivendell Institute at Yale University. Johnson earned a Ph.D. in theology at Yale University. This volume is a revision of a dissertation completed at Yale University under the direction of Miroslav Volf.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations vii

Preface ix

1 Introduction 1

2 Exemplarity and Expression 31

Rejection of the Pure Difference Thesis

3 The Positivity of the Other 75

Rejection of the Identity Thesis

4 Analogy 91

A Theological and Philosophical via Media

5 Personhood and von Balthasar's Two Metaphysics 107

6 Analogy of Being in Trinitarian and Christological Keys 139

7 Participation, Love, and Kenosis 171

8 Epilogue 197

Bibliography 205

Index 211

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