Date of Award

5-1988

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Theology

Abstract

Hans Urs von Balthasar, the Swiss theologian, maintains that the truth of Revelation must be approached through a theological aesthetics. Von Balthasar dismisses the Thomist metaphysic in favor of the Augustinian emphasis upon beauty: only "beauty' combines freedom and coherent unity. For him "truth" is either coherent and necessary, or free and dichotomous. Hence the systematization of the revealed truth, which an intellectualist theology attempts, always seeks understanding at the price of locking the revelation into a false pattern of logical necessity.

Comments

An Essay submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University, in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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