Karl Barth and Hans Urs Von Balthasar: A Critical Engagement. By Stephen D. Wigley
Oneof the ways of understanding Balthasar and the peculiar fascination he exercises over some Protestant theologians is by way of Karl Barth. The influence of Barth upon Balthasar is clear, shaping the Catholic and aesthetical theologian with some appreciatively Protestant sensibilities. There are g...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Literature and theology
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 247-249 |
| Review of: | Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar (London [u. a.] : T & T Clark, 2007) (Taylor, T. Kevin)
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| Summary: | Oneof the ways of understanding Balthasar and the peculiar fascination he exercises over some Protestant theologians is by way of Karl Barth. The influence of Barth upon Balthasar is clear, shaping the Catholic and aesthetical theologian with some appreciatively Protestant sensibilities. There are great similarities between these two theologians in their Christology and its centrality in their respective theologies (Christ is the ‘concrete universal’ for both), the primacy of Scripture and revelation, eschatology, God's sovereignty and freedom, humanity's creaturely freedom and the falsity of a neo-Thomistic, ‘pure nature’ analogy of being. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frp011 |