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Hans Urs von Balthasar's literary revelations
Denny, Christopher D. (Christopher Douglas)
A Generous Symphony offers an appraisal of Balthasar's literary achievement and explicates his literary criticism as a distinctive theology of revelation. This book examines the important question of how students of literature, like Balthasar, can be transformed into theologians by attending to the implicit presence of Christ in all things.
Introduction: A theology of literature as Christian revelation -- A literary-historical reading of Hans Urs von Balthasar and his sources -- Part I. Pre-Christendom. "Only in the West": Christian foreshadowings in ancient Greece -- Myth or philosophy?: defending literature's preeminence -- Part II. Christendom. Dante and the eschatological limits of literature -- The theater of reconciliation in Shakespeare and Calderón -- Part II. Post-Christendom. The rise of Promethean salvation in German romanticism -- After the fall of Christendom: children, celibates, and other idiots -- Conclusion: Theological appropriation of Hans Urs von Balthasar's literary criticism.
"Works by Hans Urs von Balthasar"-pages 277-280.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-301) and index.