The Rapture of God: Balthasar's Theology, Exposition, and Interpretation

by William L. Newell

Publisher:

Hamilton Books

, 2020

This is a book offering Balthasar’s theological oeuvre as a kerygma of Christ’s love proclaimed theologically as Christ’s esthetics of glory in his mission to reinvent himself, the world and us as beauty and glory. Balthasar’s hypothesis is that there is true theology and there is false theology. For him, theology is the unique science across the methods of which the decision of faith cuts, and divides it into two halves that cannot be united to each other: a genuine theology, which presupposes faith and does its thinking within the nexus of Christ and the Church; and a false theology, which rejects faith as methodologically dubious and irresponsible, and subsumes the truth of the phenomenon which discloses itself, under an anthropological truth (however this may be understood).

In William Newell’s book he deeply reflects on the radical thinking being done in Catholic theology since the 1940s in Europe and now in the United States. Each chapter, each excursus, each elision, ushers the reader towards consolations without previous causes, the essence of mysticism in its first stages. The book, as with true theology, is a ‘come and see’ beckoning the reader to an endless furtherance of the archetypal experience of Christ.

Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on Translations

Abbreviations

Prologue: The Emerging Matrices of Balthasar

Origins

Introduction: Theological Esthetics

Chapter 1: Original Sin: The Fall and Its Aftermath

Chapter 2: Mary and the Baptist

Chapter 3: Jesus: A Transcendental Anthropology, a Pre-Theology, and a Theology of Vision

Chapter 4: Christology: Rapture, Dogmatic Theology

Chapter 5: Jesus’ Mission: Balthasar’s Christology

Chapter 6: Jesus Verbalized

Chapter 7: The Cross

Chapter 8:Descent to the Dead

Chapter 9: Going to the Father: Easter

Chapter 10: Soteriology: The Salvation of All

Chapter 11: Glory

Epilogue

Bibliography

About the Author

Product Details

• Title: The Rapture of God: Balthasar's Theology, Exposition, and Interpretation
• Author: William L. Newell
• Publisher: Hamilton Books
• Print Publication Date: 2020
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9780761871897, 9780761871880, 0761871888, 0761871896
• Resource ID: LLS:9780761871897
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-31T00:34:54Z

About William L. Newell

William Newell is professor of philosophy at Eastern Connecticut State University.