Episcopalian Theology in the Twentieth Century

2019 ◽  
pp. 333-346
Author(s):  
Alison Peden
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Hans Urs Von Balthasar ◽  
Creative Power ◽  
In Christ

Bertrand Brasnett, Donald MacKinnon, and John Riches were Scottish Episcopalians who responded to the twentieth-century world with innovative theology. Between the two World Wars, the passibilist theologian Brasnett explored the eternal suffering of God in Christ and its meaning for humanity. Then MacKinnon wrestled with the reality of evil and the scope of the Church’s truthful response. Later in the century, Riches demonstrated the creative power of Scripture, as communities found their identity in an interpretative conversation with the text. Their theologies are realist, contextual, and have at their core the kenotic Christ. All three theologians were connected in some way with Hans Urs von Balthasar. They wrote in an authentically Anglican but not overtly denominational way.

Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Rahner

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Theological Method ◽  
Karl Rahner ◽  
Hans Urs Von Balthasar ◽  
In Christ

This chapter provides an account of the theology of salvation for both Hans Urs Balthasar and Karl Rahner, eminent Roman Catholic, Jesuit theologians of the twentieth century. Dickens explores both the similarities between these two theologians, such as their disdain for the neoscholastic theological method, and their differences, which primarily exist in their conception of the person, distinctive views of sin, and the scope of the reconciliation of God in Christ.

The Theological Mediation

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-41
Author(s):  
Richard Viladesau
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Theology Of The Cross ◽  
Reformed Tradition ◽  
Hans Urs Von Balthasar ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Reformation Theology ◽  
Late Modern

This chapter examines late modern reappropriations of the classical theology of the cross. In continuity with medieval and Reformation theology, these hold that Christ’s suffering was a divinely willed redemptive act, in vicarious satisfaction for human sin. The neo-orthodoxy of Karl Barth, in line with the Reformed tradition, emphasizes election and covenant. The theme of divine kenosis, found in nineteenth century German an English thinkers, is taken up into Orthodox trinitarian soteriology by the Russian theologian Sergei Bulgakov, with strong attention to Patristic dogma. Hans Urs von Balthasar stresses Christ’s “descent into hell” as the central symbol of the divine entry into the lost human condition. Jürgen Moltmann sees the suffering of God as the only possible theological response to the horrors of the twentieth century, especially the Holocaust.

John Baillie and Donald Baillie

2019 ◽  
pp. 119-131
Author(s):  
George M. Newlands
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Reinhold Niebuhr ◽  
Reformed Tradition ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Orthodox Theology ◽  
Private Prayer

John and Donald Baillie were theologians and churchmen in the Scottish Reformed tradition, active and widely influential in Britain and America in the first half of the twentieth century. Together with American colleagues Reinhold Niebuhr and Pitney Van Dusen they developed what they regarded as a liberal orthodox theology, mediating between Barthian theology and more distinctively liberal traditions. Characteristic works included John Baillie’s Gifford Lectures, The Sense of the Presence of God, Donald Baillie’s God Was in Christ, and perhaps most significantly John Baillie’s A Diary of Private Prayer, which sold millions of copies and is still in print. Both were much involved with ecumenical issues and in the World Council of Churches.

Retrievals in Contemporary Christian Theology

2019 ◽  
pp. 722-740
Author(s):  
Matthew Levering
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Hans Urs Von Balthasar ◽  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
Protestant Christians ◽  
Patristic Exegesis

This chapter explores the retrievals of patristic exegesis among Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Christians since the 1930s. The contributions of Georges Florovsky, Vladimir Lossky, Jean Daniélou, Henri de Lubac, and Hans Urs von Balthasar are singled out for particular significance. Among Protestants, the most important work has been done in recent decades, especially by Thomas Oden, who has spearheaded a popular series of compilations of patristic commentary, and by scholars who are producing commentaries on biblical books that include the reception history. Lest the term ‘retrieval’ be misleading, the chapter notes that patristic exegesis was well known in prior centuries as well, and indeed it continued to guide Catholic and Orthodox biblical studies into the early part of the twentieth century.

scholarly journals Funeral for a Homeless Vagrant? Religious and Social Margins

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Lucy Bregman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Homeless Persons ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Protestant Clergy ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Day Services ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Christian Message ◽  
Or History

A “homeless vagrant” was the term used by Protestant clergy of the first half of the twentieth century for a man without name, family or history who died on the street. Clergy were asked to perform a funeral for him, but as his religious status was unknown, his funeral posed a problem for them. How could one preach a hopeful Christian message, for one who may not have had faith in Christ? This paper uses pastors’ manuals and sermon collections to understand how this kind of “problem funeral” was interpreted as an example of a marginal death both religiously and socially. Although there were no mourners, the purpose of the funeral was worship of God, who was always ready to receive us. The homeless vagrant’s funeral was also an occasion for reproach, against the anonymity, impersonality and moral danger of urban life. The homeless vagrant’s extreme isolation and abandonment made him a warning to all. The paper closes with the contrast between this view of death on the street, and that conveyed in recent Homeless Persons Memorial Day services, organized by activists for the homeless. The latter see the homeless as persons with names and stories, part of a counter-community in cities. The tone of reproach is much more prominent here, too. Society has failed these people.

scholarly journals Experiência Mística: Identidade em Debate - DOI 10.5752/P.1983-2478.2014v10n17p25

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (17) ◽  
pp. 25-47
Author(s):  
Maria Clara Bingemer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Karl Rahner ◽  
Hans Urs Von Balthasar

ResumoNos dias em que vivemos, a experiência – exilada pela rigidez moderna a um status de alienação e dubiedade – volta a ocupar o lugar de frente no debate de ideias.  Essa volta, no entanto, não é isenta de problemas. Entre eles destaca-se  uma certa ambiguidade na compreensão do que seja esta experiência. Este texto procura refletir sobre a experiência mística.  Se a experiência volta ao centro dos interesses hoje, com a experiência mística sucede algo parecido.  E a experiência mística, portanto, busca sempre sua identidade em meio a várias formas de compreender-se e identificar-se. O texto procura descrevê-la como aquilo que é: algo eminentemente  humano.  Em seguida recorre a dois dos maiores teólogos do século XX, Karl Rahner e Hans Urs Von Balthasar, que escreveram sobre o tema.Palavras-Chave: Experiência mística. Karl Rahner. Hans Urs Von Balthasar. AbstractIn the days we live in, the experience - exiled by modern stiffness to a status of alienation and ambiguity - is back to the front place  in the debate of ideas. This return, however, is not without problems. Among them stands out a certain ambiguity in understanding what is experience. This text seeks to reflect on the mystical experience. If the experience is back to the focus of interest today, with the mystical experience happens something similar. And the mystical experience therefore always seeks its identity in the midst of several ways to understand and identify. The text seeks to describe it as what it is: something eminently human. Then reflects on the contribution oftwo of the greatest theologians of the twentieth century, Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar, who wrote on the topic.Keywords: Mystical experience. Karl Rahner. Hans Urs Von Balthasar.

Gallery Four Life

2020 ◽  
pp. 128-204
Author(s):  
Holly Morse
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Women Writers ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Creative Power ◽  
Adam And Eve ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

Within popular Western interpretative traditions, as well as the majority of modern works on the reception history of Adam and Eve, the first woman’s role as a mother has ultimately been eclipsed by her action in the garden. Nonetheless, Eve is, according to the Bible, the first female to give birth to a child and begin the cycle of human procreation, thus representing a potent symbol of female creative power. Furthermore, some of the most poignant aspects of Eve’s story are bound up in her maternity; she is mother to all living but her children will know mortality because of her actions; she will suffer pain and anguish in order to bring about new life; and she will experience the death of her second son Abel at the hands of her firstborn, Cain. In this chapter, I explore the ways in which Eve’s motherhood is represented by a number of different trajectories growing out from the Hebrew Bible and early Jewish and Christian interpretations, visual art, and the work of pre-twentieth-century women writers. Each of these categories of interpretation offers their own unique insight into mother Eve, while also sharing considerable imagery and themes between them.

Self-Transcendence and Union in Christ

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 531-548
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Fortin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sacramental Theology ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Creative Power ◽  
God's Love ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Self Transcendence

In Laudato Si, Pope Francis calls for a theology respectful of creation. I here suggest that balancing Karl Rahner’s theology of creation with his sacramental theology brings us closer to providing such a theology. Rahner’s sacramental theology fittingly complements his theology of the incarnation, by highlighting the significance of the redemption of creation accomplished in Christ. Matter and nature are redeemed and must now be listened to because they also have been made to bespeak of the divine re-creative power. Revealing life to be a gift and consecrating all natural beings as creatures endowed with a purpose, the Eucharist leads those taking part in it to perceive in nature a sacrament of God’s love. In the Eucharistic liturgy, they celebrate and reconnect with (their own) nature, which is healed and transformed to become an instrument for God.

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