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  title info:
    title: Theo-poetics
    sub title: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the risk of art and being
  name:
    name part: Carpenter, Anne M.
    name part: 1984-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: inu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 250 pages ; 23 cm
  abstract: "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. In Theo-Poetics: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Risk of Art and Being, Anne M. Carpenter explores von Balthasar's use of poetry and poetic language, and she offers a detailed analysis of his philosophical presuppositions. Carpenter argues that von Balthasar uses poets and poetic language to make theological arguments because this poetic way of speaking expresses metaphysical truth without reducing one to the other. Carpenter begins with von Balthasar's very early interests in music, literature, and philosophy, in particular his work, Apocalypse of the German Soul. She explores Glory of the Lord and the trilogy, moving through his despair over the possibility of reconciling art and theology. She uncovers the major characteristics of von Balthasar's metaphysical thinking, discussing his interactions with Thomas Aquinas, Karl Barth, and Martin Heidegger to firmly link Christology, metaphysics, and the expressiveness of language. The book concludes by marshaling its themes into a focused evaluation of von Balthasar's "redeemed" theo-poetic as it comes to expression in the poetry of G. M. Hopkins. Carpenter resituates and reevaluates Hopkins's poetry in a new context, placing him in the school of Aquinas rather than Scotus, and shows us how metaphysics is necessary for a vigorous understanding of language. "Anne M. Carpenter turns a lot of difficult and abstruse research about Hans Urs von Balthasar in the scholarly literature into a lively and readable book. The volume achieves the goal of explaining the poetic form of von Balthasar's writing, tracing it back to the centrality of the concept of expression in his philosophical theology. The special value of the book is that it explains new…
  table of contents: Beauty and risk : Die Apokalypse der deutschen Seele and Von Balthasar's early work -- 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.
  note: Anne M. Carpenter ; foreword by Peter J. Casarella.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-243) and index.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Balthasar, Hans Urs von
      name part: 1905-1988
  subject:
    topic: Theology
  subject:
    topic: Theology
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Poetry
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION / Christian Theology / Systematic
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Balthasar, Hans Urs von
      name part: 1905-1988
  subject:
    topic: Religion and poetry
  subject:
    topic: Theology
  subject:
    topic: Theology
    topic: Methodology
  classification: BX4705.B163 C37 2015
  classification: 230/.2092
  classification: REL067110 REL013000
  identifier: 9780268023782
  identifier: 0268023786
  identifier: 2015031757
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150817
    record change date: 20201031063045.0
    record identifier: in00003611576
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng