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A Generous Symphony : Hans Urs von Balthasar's Literary Revelations /
Hans Urs von Balthasar, one of the preeminent theologians of Roman Catholic theology in the modern era, constructed a theological world suffused by the literary, a vision carried across over 16 volumes of his magnum opus. A Generous Symphony offers a balanced appraisal of Balthasar's literary a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2016
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : a theology of literature as Christian revelation
- 1. A literary-historical reading of Hans Urs von Balthasar and HIS SOURCES
- part I. Pre-Christendom
- 2. "Only in the West" : Christian foreshadowings in ancient Greece
- 3. Myth or philosophy? Defending literature's preeminence
- part II. Christendom
- 4. Dante and the eschatological limits of literature
- 5. The theater of reconciliation in Shakespeare and Calderón
- part III. Post-Christendom
- 6. The rise of Promethean salvation in German Romanticism
- 7. After the fall of Christendom : children, celibates, and other idiots
- Conclusion : theological appropriation of Hans Urs von Balthasar's literary criticism.