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Balthasar on the Spiritual Senses - Perceiving Splendour (Hardcover)
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Balthasar on the Spiritual Senses - Perceiving Splendour (Hardcover)
Series: Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology
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In this study, Mark McInroy argues that the 'spiritual senses' play
a crucial yet previously unappreciated role in the theological
aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar. The doctrine of the spiritual
senses typically claims that human beings can be made capable of
perceiving non-corporeal, 'spiritual' realities. After a lengthy
period of disuse, Balthasar recovers the doctrine in the
mid-twentieth century and articulates it afresh in his theological
aesthetics. At the heart of this project stands the task of
perceiving the absolute beauty of the divine form through which God
is revealed to human beings. Although extensive scholarly attention
has focused on Balthasar's understanding of revelation, beauty, and
form, what remains curiously under-studied is his model of the
perceptual faculties through which one beholds the form that God
reveals. McInroy claims that Balthasar draws upon the tradition of
the spiritual senses in order to develop the means through which
one perceives the 'splendour' of divine revelation. McInroy further
argues that, in playing this role, the spiritual senses function as
an indispensable component of Balthasar's unique, aesthetic
resolution to the high-profile debates in modern Catholic theology
between Neo-Scholastic theologians and their opponents. As a third
option between Neo-Scholastic 'extrinsicism', which arguably
insists on the authority of revelation to the point of disaffecting
the human being, and 'immanentism', which reduces God's revelation
to human categories in the name of relevance, McInroy proposes that
Balthasar's model of spiritual perception allows one to be both
delighted and astounded by the glory of God's revelation.
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