Light in Darkness: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Catholic Doctrine of Christ's Descent into Hell. By Alyssa Lyra Pitstick
Balthasar's theology of Holy Saturday, denying that Christ's sojourn among the dead was a triumphal and glorious liberation of the Old Testament's righteous, and positing instead a passive, suffering descent into the very depths of Gehenna, has long caused disquiet within certain Cath...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 59, Issue: 1, Pages: 424-426 |
| Review of: | Light in darkness (Grand Rapids, Mich : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co, 2007) (Bullivant, Stephen)
Light in darkness (Grand Rapids, Mich : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co, 2007) (Bullivant, Stephen) |
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| Summary: | Balthasar's theology of Holy Saturday, denying that Christ's sojourn among the dead was a triumphal and glorious liberation of the Old Testament's righteous, and positing instead a passive, suffering descent into the very depths of Gehenna, has long caused disquiet within certain Catholic circles. On the one hand, Balthasar is widely regarded as one of the most orthodox and traditionally minded of twentieth-century theologians; on quite the other, his notion of a suffering descent appears consciously to disregard centuries of tradition, replacing it with a modern construct of his own innovation. Pitstick's doctoral thesis thus seeks to ‘consider whether a triumphal descent by Christ or a descent to suffering is the true expression of the Catholic Faith’ (p. 2). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm161 |