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Theo-Poetics

Hans Urs Von Balthasar and Thet Risk of Art and Being

by Anne M. Carpenter

  • Paperback
  • 256 pages
  • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
  • 15 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm

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Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) originated much of twentieth- and twenty-first-century theology's renewed interest in aesthetics. Von Balthasar's theology is both poetic and philosophical, and while this combination is often recognized, it calls for an explanation. In "Theo-Poetics: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Risk of Art and Being, " Anne M. Carpenter explores von Balthasar's use of poetry and poetic language, and she offers a detailed analysis of his philosophical presuppositions. Carpenter argues that von Balthasar uses poets and poetic language to make theological arguments because this poetic way of speaking expresses metaphysical truth without reducing one to the other. Carpenter begins with von Balthasar's very early interests in music, literature, and philosophy, in particular his earliest work, "The Development of the Musical Idea." She explores "Glory of the Lord" and the trilogy, moving through his despair over the possibility of reconciling art and theology. She uncovers the major characteristics of von Balthasar's metaphysical thinking, discussing his interactions with Thomas Aquinas, Karl Barth, and Martin Heidegger to firmly link Christology, metaphysics, and the expressiveness of language. The book concludes by marshaling its themes into a focused evaluation of von Balthasar's "redeemed" theo-poetic as it comes to expression in the poetry of G. M. Hopkins. Carpenter resituates and reevaluates Hopkins's poetry in a new context, placing him in the school of Aquinas rather than Scotus, and shows us how metaphysics is necessary for a vigorous understanding of language. "Anne M. Carpenter turns a lot of difficult and abstruse research about Hans Urs von Balthasar in the scholarly literature into a lively and readable book. The volume achieves the goal of explaining the poetic form of von Balthasar's writing, tracing it back to the centrality of the concept of expression in his philosophical theology. The special value of the book is that it explains new developments of von Balthasar and recent objections to von Balthasar in a way that makes them accessible, gathering a lot of diverse scholarship into a single quite short book." --Francesca Murphy, University of Notre Dame
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  • Author

    Anne M. Carpenter

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    University of Notre Dame Press

  • Published

    November 2015

  • Weight

    386g

  • Page Count

    256

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780268023782

  • ISBN-10

    0268023786

  • Eden Code

    4342676

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