Love Alone Is Credible: Hans Urs Von Balthasar as Interpreter of the Catholic Tradition

by David L. Schindler

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2008

Overview

In this volume, David L. Schindler presents readers with a collection of essays garnered from the 2005 conference marking the centenary of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s birth. That conference hosted an international gathering of scholars, among them students, colleagues, friends, and critics of Balthasar, all making an effort to engage the fundamental questions of faith and reason in light of Balthasar’s influence on contribution to Catholic theology.

Love Alone Is Credible explores a wide range of topics in light of the Christian mystery, including metaphysics and causality, the nature of rationality, the relationship between God and the world, and the meaning of the body. Featuring an impressive list of contributors, Love Alone Is Credible is a tribute to the profound relevance of Balthasar’s thought.

In this Logos edition, every word is essentially a link, helping you search the entire collection for a particular verse or topic. For example, you can search for every instance of the phrase “divine love” or “moral theology.” This gives you instant access to a wealth of information on twentieth-century Catholic thought.

Key Features

• Recent and essential scholarship on modern Catholic theology
• Preface by the author

Contents

Top Highlights

“includes a lived conformation to the theological realities which the propositions assented to are about.⁵” (Page 17)

“Balthasar’s way of hearing each assertion made by an author in the context of an ungraspable Whole.” (Page 197)

“a God who is not genuinely immanent cannot be genuinely transcendent either.” (Page 47)

“Balthasar’s project, particularly in the Trilogy, is to maintain christological love as the first principle of theology” (Page 19)

“‘[c]reaturely logic can be rightly seen for what it is only as an analogous participation in an absolute, Logos” (Page 225)

Product Details

• Title: Love Alone Is Credible: Hans Urs Von Balthasar as Interpreter of the Catholic Tradition
• Author: David L. Schindler
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 374

About David L. Schindler

David L. Schindler is Edouard Cardinal Gagnon Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at The Catholic University of America, Washington DC. He is also the author of Love Alone Is Credible: Hans Urs Von Balthasar as Interpreter of the Catholic Tradition, Heart of the World, Center of the Church, and Ordering Love.