The sacramentality of the world and the mystery of freedom Hans Urs von Balthasar, reader of Origen
The book offers the first in-depth study of Origen’s presence in Hans Urs von Balthasar, not only considering his books on Origen, but also analyzing Origenian ideas that played a decisive role in his theological building. Starting from the historical context, the book connects Balthasar’s reading o...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Münster, Germany :
Aschendorff Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
[2021]
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| Colección: | Adamantiana Texte und Studien zu Origenes und seinem Erbe
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009654722906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Titlepage
- Preface
- Content
- INTRODUCTION
- Section 1: ORIGEN AND THE 20TH CENTURY
- I. Balthasar among Many: Origen's Reception
- 1. The many "essences" of Origen
- 2. Origen in Balthasar's Corpus
- 3. Existing Literature and my Contribution
- II. Balthasar's Silences
- 1. Spirit and Fire: Why an Anthology?
- 2. The Structure: Inclusions and Omissions
- 3. The Three Strata of Origen
- III. Balthasar's Enthusiasm for Origen
- IV. Why Origen? The Issues behind Enthusiasm: against Neo-Scholasticism
- 1. School Theology
- 2. The Church in the World
- 3. Sources Chrétiennes: the Return to the Fathers
- 4. The Origin of Ressourcement: Henri de Lubac's Surnaturel
- 5. The Drama of Atheist Humanism
- 6. Nouvelle Théologie and Humani Generis
- 7. Balthasar's Perplexity with Surnaturel: the Discovery of a Different Concern
- 8. Balthasar and the Fathers
- V. Balthasar's Critiques of Origen
- 1. Not an Easy Retrieval
- 2. Wendung nach Osten: the Features of Eastern Spirituality
- a) Spiritualism and its Problems
- b) Liturgical Symbolism
- 3. Origen between Spiritualism and Sacramentality
- 4. Balthasar and Platonism
- VI. Why this Origen? The Issues behind the Critiques: against Idealistic Neoplatonism
- 1. The French Debate on Christian Philosophy
- 2. French Neoplatonism and Idealism
- 3. The Roots of the Critique: Titanism and Daimonic Struggle
- 4. The Prometheus Principle: Apokalypse der deutschen Seele
- 5. Secondary Evidence: Balthasar's Concern with Blondel
- Section 2: BALTHASAR'S APPRECIATION OF ORIGEN
- 1. The Transparency of the World
- 2. The Third Way
- I. The Dignity of Eros: Origen's Contribution to the Nature-Grace Controversy
- 1. Desire in Spirit and Fire
- 2. Desire in Origen's Cosmology: the Cosmic Adventure of the Soul
- a) "A Desire to be United with Him": the Dynamic Character of Desire.
- b) "The Soul's Affinity to God": the Analogical Character of Desire
- c) "Some Traces of Divine Will": the Divine Arrow of Love as "Objective Promise"
- 3. Towards Sacramental Ontology: the "Objective Promise" in Balthasar's Theology
- 4. A Unique Symbol: the Mystical Marriage
- 5. The Bridal Relation of Nature and Grace
- II. The Spiritual Senses: Origen's Contribution to the Faith-Reason Controversy
- 1. The Spiritual Senses in Balthasar's Works
- 2. Why the Spiritual Senses?
- 3. The Spiritual Body
- 4. Balthasar's Interpretation of Origen's Spiritual Senses
- 5. Analogy and Presence
- 6. Beyond the Opposition: from Aesthetics to Dramatic
- 7. Origen and Balthasar: Continuity and Discontinuity
- 8. The Fruit of the Doctrine of the Spiritual Senses
- III. Exitus-Reditus: Origen's Contribution to the Freedom-Determinism Controversy
- 1. Origen's Cosmology of Freedom
- 2. A First Explanation: Freedom and Grace in Spirit and Fire
- 3. A Different Approach to the Problem: Origen in Theo-Drama 2
- 4. Movement and Freedom
- 5. "Der wahre Kern"
- 6. The Roots of Freedom
- a) The Doctrine of Creation
- b) The Doctrine of the ἡγεμονικόν
- c) The Doctrine of Christ's Soul
- 7. An Exemplar Case: the Fifth Book of the Commentary on Romans
- 8. Indifference or Indifferentia?
- 9. The Law of Love
- IV. Conclusive Remarks: At the Core of the Tension within Balthasar's Appreciation of Origen
- 1. Titanism and Pantheism
- 2. Analogia Entis, Analogia Libertatis
- 3. A Way out of the Tension: Origen's "großartiger heilsgeschichtlicher Trinitarismus"
- 4. Kenosis and Freedom: Some Considerations
- V. Balthasar's Inspiration: Apocatastasis
- 1. Apocatastasis in Origen
- 2. Apocatastasis in Spirit and Fire
- 3. Voices on Universal Salvation
- a) Catholicisme
- b) History and Spirit.
- c) "Tu m'as trompé, Seigneur". Le commentaire d'Origène sur Jérémie 20,7
- 4. Balthasar's Development of Universal Salvation
- a) Dare we Hope
- b) Kleiner Diskurs über die Hölle
- c) Apokatastasis
- 5. Holy Saturday
- 6. Origen and Balthasar: Similarity and Dissimilarities
- 7. Barth and Origen
- CONCLUSION
- 1. Harvesting the Seed
- 2. The Fathers Today?
- List of Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- INDEXES
- Origen
- Names
- Subjects.
