The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness

Von Balthasar's Christocentric Philosophical Anthropology
2000
ISBN: 978-94-010-3789-1
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 403 g

Reihe: Studies in Philosophy and Religion

begins by providing the first comprehensive account of the model of human holiness developed by the leading theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. In so doing, the book also provides the first detailed explication of his Christocentric philosophical anthropology.
Part 2 argues that von Balthasar anticipates some key developments in late twentieth-century Anglo-American analytical philosophy, and that certain of these developments - in particular, the `internal realism' of Hilary Putnam - provide powerful support for von Balthasar's theological philosophy.
The final part elucidates von Balthasar's core intuition that human holiness is of immense apologetic value for religious faith, and concludes with a new, `internalist' theory of religious pluralism.
will be seen as an important and original contribution to both Philosophy of Religion and Theology, and is likely to prove essential reading in upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses in both subjects.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harrison, Victoria S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.- 1 Introduction.- 1.1 Current Scholarship.- 1.2 A Brief Overview of von Balthasar’s Life and Thought.- 1.3 The Aims and Structure of this Study.- ONE: VON BALTHASAR’S CONCEPTION OF HUMAN HOLINESS.- 2 The Role of Prayer in von Balthasar’s Christocentric Philosophical Anthropology.- 3 On Being Holy.- TWO: AN INTERNALIST INTERPRETATION OF VON BALTHASAR’S PHILOSOPHY.- 4 Human Holiness, Theology and Science.- 5 An Internalist Epistemology.- THREE: HUMAN HOLINESS AS APOLOGIA.- 6 Human Holiness as Religious Proof.- 7 Knowledge, Freedom and Pluralism.- Appendix: Von Balthasar’s Ideal Theology.