Balthasar on the 'Spiritual Senses' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Balthasar on the 'Spiritual Senses' write by Mark McInroy. This book was released on 2014-05. Balthasar on the 'Spiritual Senses' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines Balthasar's recovery of the doctrine of the spiritual senses in the mid-20th century, focusing on his model of the perceptual faculties through which one beholds the form that God reveals.
The Spiritual Senses
The Spiritual Senses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spiritual Senses write by Paul L. Gavrilyuk. This book was released on 2011-11-10. The Spiritual Senses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is it possible to see, hear, touch, smell and taste God? How do we understand the biblical promise that the 'pure in heart' will 'see God'? Christian thinkers as diverse as Origen of Alexandria, Bonaventure, Jonathan Edwards and Hans Urs von Balthasar have all approached these questions in distinctive ways by appealing to the concept of the 'spiritual senses'. In focusing on the Christian tradition of the 'spiritual senses', this book discusses how these senses relate to the physical senses and the body, and analyzes their relationship to mind, heart, emotions, will, desire and judgement. The contributors illuminate the different ways in which classic Christian authors have treated this topic, and indicate the epistemological and spiritual import of these understandings. The concept of the 'spiritual senses' is thereby importantly recovered for contemporary theological anthropology and philosophy of religion.
Dare We Hope - 2nd Edition
Dare We Hope - 2nd Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dare We Hope - 2nd Edition write by Hans Urs von Balthasar. This book was released on 2014-11-20. Dare We Hope - 2nd Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is perhaps one of the most misunderstood works of Catholic theology of our time. Critics contend that von Balthasar espouses universalism, the idea that all men will certainly be saved. Yet, as von Balthasar insists, damnation is a real possibility for anyone. Indeed, he explores the nature of damnation with sobering clarity. At the same time, he contends that a deep understanding of God’s merciful love and human freedom, and a careful reading of the Catholic tradition, point to the possibility—not the certainty—that, in the end, all men will accept the salvation Christ won for all. For this all-embracing salvation, von Balthasar says, we may dare hope, we must pray and with God’s help we must work. The Catholic Church’s teaching on hell has been generally neglected by theologians, with the notable exception of von Balthasar. He grounds his reflections clearly in Sacred Scripture and Catholic teaching. While the Church asserts that certain individuals are in heaven (the saints), she never declares a specific individual to be in hell. In fact, the Church hopes that in their final moments of life, even the greatest sinners would have repented of their terrible sins, and be saved. Sacred Scripture states, “God ... desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all” (1 Tim 2:4–5).
Word and Silence
Word and Silence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Word and Silence write by Raymond Gawronski. This book was released on 1995. Word and Silence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Glory of the Lord
The Glory of the Lord - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Glory of the Lord write by Hans Urs Von Balthasar. This book was released on 2013-06-05. The Glory of the Lord available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this fourth volume of his magnnum opus, von Balthasar considers the metaphysical tradition of the contemplation of Being. He provides major studies of Homer, the Greek Tragedians, Plato and Plotinus and the development of this tradition in the Middle Ages. He then explores the analogy between the metaphysical vision of the Being and the Christian vision of the divine glory of the Trinity. The book is a remarkable attempt to rediscover the ancient vision of Being in all its awesomeness as the context within which the specifically Christian vision, rooted in God's gracious self-revelation, took form and was expressed.
