Love Itself Is Understanding
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Introduction
1. The Ignatian Balthasar
2. Balthasar On Mission
3. Saints, Truth, And Theology
4. Truth And Love
5. “I Am The Truth”
6. The Spirit Of Truth
7. Love Itself Is Understanding
8. Mystical Styles: A Case Study
9. Knowledge, Love, And Mission
Bibliography
Index
Additional Info
What do the saints have to do with truth? Saints and their concern for holiness are often relegated to the realm of spirituality or kitsch, while the search for truth is reserved for the intellectual elite. Truth and spirituality appear to be utterly separate categories.
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) set out to reunite truth and holiness by returning the saints to their proper place at the heart of philosophy, theology, and metaphysics. Love Itself Is Understanding is one of the first systematic treatments of Balthasar’s theology of the saints. Matthew Rothaus Moser presents Balthasar as an alternative to Idealist philosophy, a thinker who develops a religious metaphysics in which the saints’ practices of prayer and contemplation are the chief mode of knowing that the truth of Being is divine love. Love Itself Is Understanding casts new light on dominant themes in Balthasar’s thought and invites a renewed vision of the theological and metaphysical significance of the spiritual practices of prayer, obedience, and charity.
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SKU (ISBN): 9781451499599
ISBN10: 1451499590
Matthew Moser
Binding: Cloth Text
Published: November 2016
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers – 1517 Media
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