Towards a Theology of God the Father: Hans Urs Von Balthasar's Theodramatic Approach

ISBN-13: 9780820449630 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 327 str.

Margaret M. Turek

Opis

Among Hans Urs von Balthasar s vast corpus of theological works not one is found devoted specifically to an elaboration of a doctrine of God the Father. This study gathers and interprets Balthasar s many scattered reflections on the mystery of the God of Jesus Christ especially those concentrated in his Theological Dramatic Theory on its way to constructing an approach towards a theology of God s Fatherhood. Several of the most significant current issues in theology are addressed in this study, such as a reinterpretation of divine omnipotence in terms of the Father s all-powerful powerlessness, the question of the possibility of coexistence between infinite freedom and finite freedom, an understanding of the immutability of God that allows for the Father s being affected in some way by finite freedom, and an account of the Father s generative act that sees as integral to it a properly paternal modality of receptivity."

O autorze

The Author: Margaret M. Turek is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Dallas.