Say it is Pentecost: A Guide Through Balthasar's LogicThis volume completes Aidan Nichols's presentation of the great theological trilogy of Hans Urs von Balthasar. The book offers a summary and interpretation of Balthasar's logic and considers the way in which The Truth of the World points forward to theological aesthetics and dramatics. |
Contents
Introducing Balthasars Logic | 1 |
TRUTH OF THE WORLD | 7 |
Being and Truth | 9 |
Subject Object and God | 15 |
Inwardness and Freedom | 23 |
Image and Reality | 35 |
Being Situated | 45 |
Truth Worldly and Truth Divine | 55 |
TRUTH OF THE SPIRIT | 125 |
The Spirits Entry into Logic | 127 |
Christ and the Spirit | 131 |
The Holy Spirit the Interpreter | 135 |
The Spirit as Personal Being | 139 |
The Fathers Two Hands | 147 |
Logical Preliminaries | 161 |
Subjective and Objective | 171 |
TRUTH OF THE WORD | 61 |
The Johannine Entry 63 | 63 |
Logic and Love | 67 |
Tracing the Trinity | 69 |
The Selfexpression of the Logos | 73 |
The Place of the Logos in God | 81 |
The Emergence of the World through the Word | 91 |
Fulfilment from God | 95 |
The Word Is Made Flesh | 101 |
The Logic of Contradiction | 119 |
The Spirit and the World | 187 |
Return to the Father | 191 |
A RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE | 195 |
Epilogue to the Trilogy | 197 |
Postword | 211 |
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