Light in Darkness: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Catholic Doctrine of Christ’s Descent into Hell by Alyssa Lyra Pitstick

2008 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-164
Author(s):  
Rodney Howsare
Moreana ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 28 (Number 105) (1) ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Georges Chantraine

Author(s):  
Gaspar Brahm Mir

El hombre es un ser que busca el sentido de su existencia en todo lo que hace. A la vez que es consciente de su contingencia, es capaz de elevarse por sobre lo meramente temporal. El arte pareciera ser una actividad humana que, por combinar lo contingente con lo necesario, puede llevar al hombre hacia una obra llena de sentido. Siguiendo al teólogo suizo Hans Urs von Balthasar, cabría entender la vida del hombre como una obra artístico-dramática, en la que entran en diálogo su libertad con la donación divina. La obra maestra existencial será, por consiguiente, la aceptación plena del don de Dios por parte del hombre.


Author(s):  
Kevin Mongrain

This chapter considers the extensive corpus of Hans Urs von Balthasar by treating two architectonic themes in his thought: remembrance and beauty. In the first instance, Balthasar sees theology in modernity—especially in the form of neo-scholasticism—as marked by a failure to remember appropriately some essential principles of Christian tradition, most importantly the inseparability of theology and spirituality in an anti-Gnostic key. In the second instance, the theme of theological aesthetics is treated, initially by placing Balthasar’s conception of a true seeing of natural forms against the background of Goethe’s philosophy. The epiphanic nature of all created being, able to reveal to us the glory of God, and yet obscured from us by sin, lies at the heart of Balthasar’s theology. Ultimately, this theology is Christocentric: the crucified and risen Christ-form becomes a permanent sacramental vehicle of divine grace, restoring our sight of natural form and divine glory.


Communio ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol N° 257-258 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-180
Author(s):  
Hansjùrgen Verweyen ◽  
Thomas Alferi

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