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  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Analogies of the Trinity: St. Thomas Aquinas, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Adrienne von Speyr
  • The Historical Context of the “Tensionâ€? between the Theology of Balthasar and that of St. Thomas
  • The Analogy of Being and the Psychological Model of the Trinity: St. Thomas Aquinas
  • A Trinitarian Analogy of Freedom: Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • An Analogy of Surrender: Adrienne von Speyr
  • A Trinitiarian “Resolutionâ€? of Human “Tensionsâ€? or Polarities
  • 2. The Difference-in-Unity of Faithâ€?s Object and Act: A Speyrian Methodology of Gift Encountering GiftDiscerning the Unity of Adrienneâ€?s Mission and Theology of Mission under Balthasarâ€?s Regard
  • A “Theodramaticâ€? Hermeneutic: The Theologianâ€?s Openness to the Divine “Ever-Moreâ€?
  • Faith: A Participation in the Revelatory Disposition of Christ
  • Adrienne, the Mystic: Balthasarâ€?s Model “Theologianâ€?
  • The Fruits of Adrienneâ€?s Faith as a Gift for the Church
  • 3. The Nature-Grace Difference-in-Unity: The Expansion of Human Liberty to the “Measureâ€? of the Divine (Theological Persons)Introduction: The Question of Human Fulfillment
  • St. Thomas on Human Fulfillment: Human Participation in Divine Knowledge and Love
  • A Balthasarian Understanding of Human Fulfillment: Human Surrender within Divine Surrender
  • A Speyrian Understanding of the Image of God: Nature and Grace
  • Human Perfection in Divine Communion as Viewed by Adrienne von Speyr
  • The Mystery of Grace and Merit from the Perspective of the Mutual Immanence of Christ and the ChristianBreaking Boundaries from Within: The Expansion of Human Nature by Christ in the Christian
  • The Expansion of the Christianâ€?s Assent to the “Proportionâ€? of Godâ€?s Surrender
  • Mary-Church or Person as Response: An Anticipation of Balthasarâ€?s “Theological Personâ€?
  • Conclusion: Breaking the Boundary between Nature and Grace
  • 4. The Body-Spirit Difference-in-Unity: A Speyrian Theology of the Body
  • Introduction to a Speyrian Theology of the Body
  • The Body-Spirit “Tensionâ€? in Balthasarâ€?s WorkThe Heart of Adrienneâ€?s Theology of the Body: The Incarnation as a Revelation of Trinitarian Love
  • Adrienneâ€?s Incarnational Perspective: A Corporal-Spiritual Unity
  • Sacraments as the Archetypal Form of Human Life: The Example of Christian Marriage
  • The Eucharist of the Father and the Son: Our Inclusion in Trinitarian Love
  • The Eucharist of Believers: A Corporal-Spiritual Participation in Christâ€?s Mission
  • Mary-Church, the Body of Christ