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.

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.

Theologies of Salvation from the Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Karl Barth ◽  
Karl Rahner ◽  
Friedrich Schleiermacher ◽  
John Wesley ◽  
Subsequent Growth ◽  
Hans Urs Von Balthasar ◽  
Gustavo Gutierrez ◽  
Fourth Part ◽  
Book Covers ◽  
Unique Context

This overview chapter for the fourth part of the book covers theologies of salvation from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. It covers John Wesley, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Karl Barth, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Rahner, and Gustavo Gutiérrez. In the overview chapter, Ryan Reeves explains that the unique context of this period of time provides an intriguing backdrop for competing theologies of salvation. The dawn and subsequent growth of modernity and the rise in rational, empirical thinking in this period reveal the need for theologians to re-examine both the nature and effects of salvation.

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.

Eternity in Time—Time in Eternity: Temporality and the Human Self in the Eschaton

2019 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-391
Author(s):  
Beáta Tóth
Keyword(s):  
Karl Rahner ◽  
Complex Treatment ◽  
Augustine Of Hippo ◽  
Hans Urs Von Balthasar ◽  
Consistent Manner ◽  
Joseph Ratzinger

By interviewing four interlocutors (Karl Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Joseph Ratzinger, Jean-Luc Marion, and indirectly a fifth, Augustine of Hippo), this article attempts to open up the conceptual and imaginative space in which the issue of the temporality of the human self within the eschaton may be dealt with in a more consistent manner. The strengths and weaknesses of these accounts—which at several points may be seen as complementing one another—reveal the need for a complex treatment reconfiguring theological anthropological thought along the lines of this traditionally less developed and yet intriguing question.

Barth and Roman Catholic Theology

2019 ◽  
pp. 669-686
Author(s):  
Paul D. Molnar
Keyword(s):  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Karl Rahner ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
Analogy Of Being ◽  
Hans Urs Von Balthasar ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Analogia Entis ◽  
The Trinity

Taking Barth’s doctrines of revelation and the Trinity as a starting point, this chapter places Barth’s thought primarily in conversation with Walter Kasper. It considers Kasper’s work as an attempt to integrate insights drawn from Barth and Karl Rahner, while placing their views within the wider context of post-Vatican II Roman Catholic theology, as well as the thinking of Hans Urs von Balthasar. By focusing on the different attitudes of Barth and Kasper to the analogia entis (analogy of being), the chapter proposes that the primary issue related to ecumenical unity that emerges concerns whether, and to what extent, contemporary theologians are willing to allow Jesus Christ himself to stand as the first and the final Word in all theological reflection.

Philosophy and Theology Together: Karl Rahner’s Way of Thinking

2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 1523-1558
Author(s):  
Domingos Terra
Keyword(s):  
Human Existence ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Karl Rahner ◽  
Saint Ignatius Of Loyola ◽  
Hans Urs Von Balthasar ◽  
Experience Of God ◽  
Intellectual Honesty ◽  
Immediate Experience ◽  
The One ◽  
To Receive

Karl Rahner’s thinking can be understood by looking at several of its coordinates. First, it unfolds in close connection with the fundamental dynamics of human existence (thinking with a reference). Second, it is prompted by a personal and immediate experience of God, namely, the one of the author himself (thinking with a motivation). Third, it is influenced by the spirituality of Saint Ignatius of Loyola (thinking with an inspiration). Fourth, it aims to show the reasonableness and, therefore, the credibility of the Christian faith (thinking with a purpose). Fifth, it is guided by intellectual honesty that leads to facing reality without reduction or concealment (thinking with an attitude). Finally, it combines philosophy and theology, more precisely, treats philosophy as a necessary moment in theology (thinking with a method). Karl Rahner is remembered for operating the “anthropological turn” in theology. This means that, in his view, one should not reflect on God without reflecting on the human being as well. Rahner is particularly interested in examining the human’s ability to receive what comes from God’s self-revelation. It is an aspect that gives occasion to the discussion that Hans Urs von Balthasar has with him. At the heart of Rahner’s anthropology is the “transcendental experience”. It is originated by the absolute mystery that is present in human existence, precisely that mystery that Christians call God. It is such a fundamental experience that it must be taken into account when leading one’s own existence.

The neglect of desire

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-61
Author(s):  
Sam Hole
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

Chapter 1 examines the intellectual, ecclesial, and wider cultural context underpinning the diverse modern interpretations of John’s thought. Twentieth-century studies of John, for all their methodological variety, have been dominated by three traditions of interpretation that have only grasped partial elements in his teaching, important though these elements are. These traditions have emphasized the importance of ‘affectivity’ in the spiritual life, the meanings of ‘mysticism’ or ‘mystical experience’, and the theological significance of John’s poetic language. Each strand of thought, however, originates from particular early twentieth-century theological and philosophical commitments whose legacy continues to inform present-day reading of John. Recognition of the extent to which previous works have been shaped by disciplinary boundaries that took their shape in the last century enables a renewed appreciation of John’s theology on its own terms. Through this insight aspects of his work that have all too often been split between spirituality, mysticism, literary studies, and theological anthropology—in particular, his creative reworking of the notion of desire—may be better appreciated.

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