The Achievement of Hans Urs Von Balthasar
An Introduction to His Trilogy
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- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
29 June 2019
Summary
In The Achievement of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Matthew Levering has written a book for theologically educated readers who mistrust von Balthasar or who mistrust von Balthasar’s critics. The book shows that von Balthasar’s critics can and should benefit both from the rich and wide-ranging conversations that mark his trilogy and from the critical and constructive engagement with German philosophical modernity offered by the trilogy. In addition, Levering hopes to show that those who mistrust von…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780813231754 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0813231752 |
| Author: | Matthew Levering |
| Publisher: | The Catholic University of America Press |
| Imprint: | The Catholic University of America Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 29 June 2019 |
| Weight: | 395g |
| Dimensions: | 213mm x 137mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Studies in Early Christianity |
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Critics Review
“Flawless and clear writing, with a streamlined and perspicacious structure. The tripartite theme is unique and offers one of the most teachable ways into von Balthasar’s theological legacy. A prize for students and teachers alike.”–Adam G. Cooper, John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, Australia
“Levering’s book is characteristically lucid and generous in its presentation of Balthasar’s robust Catholic theological response to certain major philosophers of modernity. This indeed is one of Balthasar’s greatest achievements, and I am glad to have such a wonderful treatment from the skillful mind of Matthew Levering. In a secularized intellectual milieu where the postmodern legacies of Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche remain dominant, Levering’s careful study of Balthasar offers Catholic scholars a great gift. Levering’s reading of Balthasar models a renewed and expanded style of Thomistic theology in which the goal is not only to retrieve Aquinas’s teachings but also to imitate Aquinas’s critical engagements with the philosophical currents of his day. Levering enlists Balthasar in this enterprise and does so with clarity and grace.”–Andrew Prevot, Boston College
“Levering has provided us with a profound appreciation of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s theology written by a Thomist fellow traveler, a vision of Balthasar’s trilogy marked by both warranted irenicism and critical verve. His constructive proposal for the future of Catholic theology is both significant and promising.”–Thomas Joseph White, OP, author of The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism
About The Author
Matthew Levering
Matthew Levering is the James N. and Mary D. Perry Jr. Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary.
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