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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Hans Urs Von Balthasar"”.
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Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar: a critical engagement
… twentieth century theologians, Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar. It seeks to show how their meeting, resulting in von Balthasar’s seminal study The Theology of Karl Barth, goes on to influence von Balthasar’s theological development throughout his trilogy beginning with The Glory of the …
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Hans Urs Von Balthasar and Kenosis: The Pathway to Human Agency
… to examine the kenotic motif in the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, particularly in light of his concern to protect human agency. This dissertation argues that Balthasar views kenotic spiritual practice as the pathway to achieve true human agency. This kenotic pathway to agency is placed in …
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Suffering and the Search for Wholeness: Beauty and the Cross in Hans Urs Von Balthasar and Contemporary Feminist Theologies
… construction can be found in the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, wherein divine beauty culminates in Christ's kenotic self-surrender at the cross. In a feminist hermeneutic, the identification of divine beauty with crucified love is dangerous, as it runs the risk of glorifying suffering …
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So That Love May Be Safeguarded: The Nature, Form, and Function of Obedience as a Heuristic Device for the Theology of Hans Urs Von Balthasar
<p>Hans Urs von Balthasar's literary body of work is enormous. His style is erudite and often abstruse. As a result, it is often difficult to systematize and arrange his work into coherent and consistent categories. This dissertation offers the singular category of obedience as a heuristic device …
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Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Appeal of Polyphony
… on the polyphonic quality of the works of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Vern S. Poythress and John Gray.
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"This Flesh Will Rise Again": Retrieving Early Christian Faith in Bodily Resurrection
… Pope Benedict XVI), Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. The dissertation concludes with an articulation of the doctrine of bodily</p><p> resurrection intended for an audience who does not view the epistemological foundations of</p><p> previous generations as valid.
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Weeping at the grave, we make our song : Alleluia - Lament and thanksgiving in Church of England funerals
… for a response, the thesis examines the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar, and in particular his book Mysterium Paschale. Balthasar considers each of the three days of Easter in turn, finding particular power and importance in Holy Saturday. It is this weight that he gives to the day in which Jesus …
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Georges Bernanos' Debt To Therese Of Lisieux
… observed. The noted German-Swiss theologian, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Guy Gaucher, a well-known Carmelite scholar and an authority on both Therese and Bernanos, have both particularly insisted however on the influence of Therese of Lisieux on Georges Bernanos' creative vision. In 1954 von …
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Love itself is understanding : Balthasar, truth, and the saints.
This study examines the thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar on the post-Scholastic separation between dogmatic theology and the spirituality of Church, which he describes as the loss of the saints. Balthasar conceives of this separation as a shattering of truth — the "living exposition of theory in …
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Divine Freedom and Revelation in Christ: The Doctrine of Eternity with Special Reference to the Theology of Karl Barth
… focus on the works of Thomas Aquinas and Hans Urs von Balthasar, my analysis shows not only that this is the case but, moreover, that the classical explications of these motifs have major advantages over their Barthian equivalents. Furthermore, I show that this act of reading the classical …
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The Womb in The Waste Land: Abortion as Social Failure in “A Game of Chess” * Another Radical Feminism: In Defense of the Woman-Mother *Love in the Convent: Female Friendship and the Failure of Marriage in The History of the Nun
… to communicate his idea that public discourse in England was waging war on the nation’s social and psychic interior by promoting abortions and the use of contraceptives among working-class women. “A Game of Chess” is comprised in part by a scene of two working-class women discussing sex, …
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Konstruktive Dekonstruktion? : zur theologischen Rezeption Jacques Derridas im deutschsprachigen Raum
… an diesem Philosophen vorübergehen, ohne von seinem kritischen Impuls berührt oder sogar verwundet zu werden? Welcherart Heraus-forderung stellt sein Denken für die Sprache der Religion dar? Auf welche Weise wird sie von der Dekonstruktion hinterfragt oder erneuert? In den letzten zehn …
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Untimely meditations: female mysticism in medieval culture and modern scholarship
… devotee/confessor relationship (Adrienne von Speyr and Hans URs von Balthasar) before juxtaposing the writing of Simone Weil and Anne Carson, which resonate with the removal or 'decreation' of self that form the foundation of the apophatic genre. Concluding with a survey of the so-called …
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A Constructive Theology of Truth as a Divine Name with Reference to the Bible and Augustine
… God as truth for contemporary theological discourse and points to its relevance to biblical studies and philosophy of religion. The contribution is threefold: first, the thesis introduces a novel method for constructive theology, consisting of developing conceptual parameters from source …