Theses Towards A Trinitarian Ontology

by Klaus Hemmerle, Rowan Williams (Foreword by), Stephen Churchyard (Translator)

Overview

Written in 1975 as a birthday greeting to the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, Klaus Hemmerle's Theses Towards A Trinitarian Ontology is of the highest theological moment as a key source text for the recent widespread interest in the idea of a "Trinitarian ontology." Drawing on Hemmerle's deep familiarity with German Idealism, the Theses sketch an ontology beginning not from invariance, but from "self-giving," from kenosis, and articulate a distinctively Trinitarian response to the aporias of early twenty-first-century thought-a response for which only Love can credibly be understood as the meaning of Being.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621386490
Publisher:	Angelico Press
Publication date:	12/21/2020
Pages:	78
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.19(d)

About the Author

KLAUS HEMMERLE (1929-1994) taught theology and philosophy at Freiburg, Bonn, and Bochum, and was then Bishop of Aachen from 1975 until his death. A church leader of great spiritual gifts, Hemmerle was a leading member of the Focolare movement.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Author's Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

New Ontology as a Theological and

Philosophical Postulate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Entry Into the Distinctively Christian Element . . . . . . 23

Foundations of a Trinitarian Ontology . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Appendix: Consequences of a Trinitarian Ontology . . . 57