Personal Identity And Integration: Von Balthasar's Phenomenology Of Human Holiness
In the view of Hans Urs von Balthasar, what is needed to bring a human life to fulfilment—to become ‘whole’—is the death of one's ‘personality’, and the acquisition of one's specific ‘personhood’, which is given to one, along with one's mission, by God. Moreover, according to von Balt...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1999
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Heythrop journal
Year: 1999, Volume: 40, Issue: 4, Pages: 424-437 |
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| Summary: | In the view of Hans Urs von Balthasar, what is needed to bring a human life to fulfilment—to become ‘whole’—is the death of one's ‘personality’, and the acquisition of one's specific ‘personhood’, which is given to one, along with one's mission, by God. Moreover, according to von Balthasar, a human being becomes a ‘unique person’ when encountering God in contemplative prayer. And it is within contemplative prayer that one comes into contact with one's ‘Idea’, which is actualised when one' personal identity is fully developed, and which it is one's mission to conform to. Thus this article shows how the fundamental components of von Balthasar's distinctive phenomenological model of human holiness fit together, in actual practice as lived, around his core concept of ‘mission’. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-2265 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2265.00114 |