The sacramentality of the world and the mystery of freedom : : Hans Urs von Balthasar, reader of Origen /

The sacramentality of the world and the mystery of freedom : : Hans Urs von Balthasar, reader of Origen / / Elisa Zocchi.

The book offers the first in-depth study of Origen’s presence in Hans Urs von Balthasar, not only considering his books on Origen, but also analyzing Origenian ideas that played a decisive role in his theological building. Starting from the historical context, the book connects Balthasar’s reading o...

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Superior document:Adamantiana
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Zocchi, Elisa,
Place / Publishing House:Münster, Germany : : Aschendorff Verlag GmbH & Co. KG,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:AdamantianaTexte und Studien zu Origenes und seinem Erbe
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (363 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Titlepage
  • Preface
  • Content
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Section 1: ORIGEN AND THE 20TH CENTURY
  • I. Balthasar among Many: Origen's Reception
  • 1. The many "essences" of Origen
  • 2. Origen in Balthasar's Corpus
  • 3. Existing Literature and my Contribution
  • II. Balthasar's Silences
  • 1. Spirit and Fire: Why an Anthology?
  • 2. The Structure: Inclusions and Omissions
  • 3. The Three Strata of Origen
  • III. Balthasar's Enthusiasm for Origen
  • IV. Why Origen? The Issues behind Enthusiasm: against Neo-Scholasticism
  • 1. School Theology
  • 2. The Church in the World
  • 3. Sources Chrétiennes: the Return to the Fathers
  • 4. The Origin of Ressourcement: Henri de Lubac's Surnaturel
  • 5. The Drama of Atheist Humanism
  • 6. Nouvelle Théologie and Humani Generis
  • 7. Balthasar's Perplexity with Surnaturel: the Discovery of a Different Concern
  • 8. Balthasar and the Fathers
  • V. Balthasar's Critiques of Origen
  • 1. Not an Easy Retrieval
  • 2. Wendung nach Osten: the Features of Eastern Spirituality
  • a) Spiritualism and its Problems
  • b) Liturgical Symbolism
  • 3. Origen between Spiritualism and Sacramentality
  • 4. Balthasar and Platonism
  • VI. Why this Origen? The Issues behind the Critiques: against Idealistic Neoplatonism
  • 1. The French Debate on Christian Philosophy
  • 2. French Neoplatonism and Idealism
  • 3. The Roots of the Critique: Titanism and Daimonic Struggle
  • 4. The Prometheus Principle: Apokalypse der deutschen Seele
  • 5. Secondary Evidence: Balthasar's Concern with Blondel
  • Section 2: BALTHASAR'S APPRECIATION OF ORIGEN
  • 1. The Transparency of the World
  • 2. The Third Way
  • I. The Dignity of Eros: Origen's Contribution to the Nature-Grace Controversy
  • 1. Desire in Spirit and Fire
  • 2. Desire in Origen's Cosmology: the Cosmic Adventure of the Soul
  • a) "A Desire to be United with Him": the Dynamic Character of Desire.
  • b) "The Soul's Affinity to God": the Analogical Character of Desire
  • c) "Some Traces of Divine Will": the Divine Arrow of Love as "Objective Promise"
  • 3. Towards Sacramental Ontology: the "Objective Promise" in Balthasar's Theology
  • 4. A Unique Symbol: the Mystical Marriage
  • 5. The Bridal Relation of Nature and Grace
  • II. The Spiritual Senses: Origen's Contribution to the Faith-Reason Controversy
  • 1. The Spiritual Senses in Balthasar's Works
  • 2. Why the Spiritual Senses?
  • 3. The Spiritual Body
  • 4. Balthasar's Interpretation of Origen's Spiritual Senses
  • 5. Analogy and Presence
  • 6. Beyond the Opposition: from Aesthetics to Dramatic
  • 7. Origen and Balthasar: Continuity and Discontinuity
  • 8. The Fruit of the Doctrine of the Spiritual Senses
  • III. Exitus-Reditus: Origen's Contribution to the Freedom-Determinism Controversy
  • 1. Origen's Cosmology of Freedom
  • 2. A First Explanation: Freedom and Grace in Spirit and Fire
  • 3. A Different Approach to the Problem: Origen in Theo-Drama 2
  • 4. Movement and Freedom
  • 5. "Der wahre Kern"
  • 6. The Roots of Freedom
  • a) The Doctrine of Creation
  • b) The Doctrine of the ἡγεμονικόν
  • c) The Doctrine of Christ's Soul
  • 7. An Exemplar Case: the Fifth Book of the Commentary on Romans
  • 8. Indifference or Indifferentia?
  • 9. The Law of Love
  • IV. Conclusive Remarks: At the Core of the Tension within Balthasar's Appreciation of Origen
  • 1. Titanism and Pantheism
  • 2. Analogia Entis, Analogia Libertatis
  • 3. A Way out of the Tension: Origen's "großartiger heilsgeschichtlicher Trinitarismus"
  • 4. Kenosis and Freedom: Some Considerations
  • V. Balthasar's Inspiration: Apocatastasis
  • 1. Apocatastasis in Origen
  • 2. Apocatastasis in Spirit and Fire
  • 3. Voices on Universal Salvation
  • a) Catholicisme
  • b) History and Spirit.
  • c) "Tu m'as trompé, Seigneur". Le commentaire d'Origène sur Jérémie 20,7
  • 4. Balthasar's Development of Universal Salvation
  • a) Dare we Hope
  • b) Kleiner Diskurs über die Hölle
  • c) Apokatastasis
  • 5. Holy Saturday
  • 6. Origen and Balthasar: Similarity and Dissimilarities
  • 7. Barth and Origen
  • CONCLUSION
  • 1. Harvesting the Seed
  • 2. The Fathers Today?
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • INDEXES
  • Origen
  • Names
  • Subjects.

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