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A generous symphony : Hans Urs von Balthasar's literary revelations /
A Generous Symphony offers an appraisal of Balthasar's literary achievement and explicates his literary criticism as a distinctive theology of revelation. This book examines the important question of how students of literature, like Balthasar, can be transformed into theologians by attending to...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
Fortress Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A Generous Symphony; A Generous Symphony; ; Ded; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Theology of Literature as Christian Revelation; A Literary-Historical Reading of Hans Urs von Balthasar and His Sources; Pre-Christendom; "Only in the West": Christian Foreshadowings in Ancient Greece; Myth or Philosophy? Defending Literature's Preeminence; Christendom; Dante and the Eschatological Limits of Literature; The Theater of Reconciliation in Shakespeare and Calderón; Post-Christendom; The Rise of Promethean Salvation in German Romanticism.
- After the Fall of Christendom: Children, Celibates, and Other IdiotsConclusion: Theological Appropriation of Hans Urs von Balthasar's Literary Criticism; Works by Hans Urs von Balthasar; Bibliography; Index.