Experiencing the Call of Grace

ISBN-13: 9783838336145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 200 str.

Opis

This investigation explores the theological anthropologies of two of the most important theologians of the twentieth century: Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) and Karl Rahner (1904-1984). The focus on anthropology is intended both to locate a distinctive dimension important in the theological systems of both men as well as to provide a useful theological category in which consideration of similarities and differences between them might be facilitated. Such a comparison is important since it can be argued that these two figures represent in multiple ways the two principal streams of theological reflection - and inflection - flowing from the turbulent twentieth century to the twenty-first. While that assertion may be seen by some as an overstatement, no other pairing provides as much scholarly range, depth and broad cross-disciplinary literacy, deployed by them and their disciples in service of the great theological debates of the mid-to-late twentieth century, especially in the Roman Catholic Church. Those debates continue with increasing intensity today. The pairing of these brilliant theologians and the possibility of discerning a genuine synthesis has much to offer the world.

O autorze

Dr.Langmead has MA, S.T.L. and S.T.D. degrees from St, Mary's Seminary and University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is Executive in Residence at Loyola University Maryland, where he has received BSBA and MBA degrees, and is a part-time faculty member of the Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St. Mary's Seminary and University.