Theo-poetics : : Hans Urs von Balthasar and the risk of art and being / / Anne M. Carpenter ; foreword by Peter J. Casarella.

"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...

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Place / Publishing House:Notre Dame, Indiana : : University of Notre Dame Press,, [2015]
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (269 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • The redemption of beauty : Von Balthasar and the path to Herrlichkeit
  • Measuring metaphysics : being, language, and christology
  • A theological poetic
  • Art, metaphysics, and the sacraments.