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Love Itself is Understanding: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theology of the Saints

Love Itself is Understanding: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theology of the Saints

Rothaus Moser, Matthew A.

Hardcover

CatholicismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1451499590
ISBN13: 9781451499599
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: Nov 1 2016
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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 (19051988) 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 Balthasars 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 Balthasars 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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