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The Achievement of Hans Urs von Balthasar - An Introduction to His Trilogy (Paperback)
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The Achievement of Hans Urs von Balthasar - An Introduction to His Trilogy (Paperback)
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In The Achievement of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Matthew Levering has
written a book for theologically educated readers who mistrust von
Balthasar or who mistrust von Balthasar's critics. The book shows
that von Balthasar's critics can and should benefit both from the
rich and wide-ranging conversations that mark his trilogy and from
the critical and constructive engagement with German philosophical
modernity offered by the trilogy. In addition, Levering hopes to
show that those who mistrust von Balthasar's critics need to be
more Balthasarian in their response to criticisms of the Swiss
theologian. In this introductory volume, the focus is on the first
volume of each part of the trilogy. This approach exhibits the main
lines of von Balthasar's trilogy in a way that allows for an
introductory volume of manageable size. This approach also avoids
the more controversial volumes of the trilogy. Reading von
Balthasar with the goal of engaging his more controversial views is
certainly justifiable, but in an introductory book, the danger is
that some readers could miss the forest due to their opposition to
some of the trees. The Achievement of Hans Urs von Balthasar
contributes to the healing of the internecine conflicts that, since
the 1930s or earlier, have pitted Ressourcement theologians and
Thomistic theologians against each other with grave consequences
for the health of Catholic theology. Despite sharing a strong
belief in the faithful mediation of divine revelation through
Scripture and the Church, many Catholic theologians today find
themselves at loggerheads with each other. Easily forgotten by the
Ressourcement and Thomistic combatants is their shared commitment
to the theo-aesthetic beauty, theo-dramatic goodness, and
theo-logical truth of Christ's revelation of Trinitarian
self-surrendering love as our source and supernatural goal, and
their shared rejection of philosophical modernity's immanentism,
historicism, and power-centered voluntarism. The present book seeks
to highlight these shared commitments, while leaving room for
disagreement about von Balthasar's specific positions and
approaches.
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