The Analogy of Being: Invention of the Antichrist Or Wisdom of God?

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Thomas Joseph White
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2011 - Religion - 440 pages
Does all knowledge of God come through Christ alone, or can human beings discover truths about God philosophically? The Analogy of Being assembles essays by expert Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox theologians to examine the relationship between divine revelation in the person of Jesus Christ and the philosophical capacities of natural reason. These essays were inspired by the lively, decades-long debate between Karl Barth and Erich Przywara, which was first sparked in 1932 when Barth wrote that the use of natural theology in Roman Catholic thinking was the invention of the Antichrist. The contributors to The Analogy of Being analyze and reflect on both sides of Barth and Przywara s spirited discourse, offering diverse responses to a controversy reaching to the very core of Christian faith and theology. It would be difficult to match the range and quality of commentators on this historic exchange between a Catholic philosopher and a renowned Reformed theologian on a subject of enduring significance, given the centrality of analogy to any issue in philosophical theology. Moreover, the contributions exhibit how the issues have come to span ecclesial boundaries as their import has progressively evolved. A splendid collection! David Burrell, C.S.C. Uganda Martyrs University A profound testimony to the enduring significance of the analogia entis debate between Erich Przywara and Karl Barth. Hans Boersma Regent College In a fresh ecumenical context, this extraordinary volume rekindles the mid-twentieth-century encounter between ressourcement thinkers and metaphysical theology. The voices of Przywara, Barth, Balthasar, and others speak anew through leading theologians of our own day in these masterfully orchestrated essays. Matthew Levering University of Dayton
 

Contents

A New Introduction
35
Thomism
172
Hans Urs von Balthasar Erich Przywaras Analogia Entis
192
Attending to the Wisdom of God from Effect
209
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246
Christ the End of Analogy
280
Analogia Entis as an Expression of Love according
314
Creation as Aesthetic Analogy
341
Perfection and Participation
379
select bibliography
417
contributors
433
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Thomas Joseph White, OP, is director of the Thomistic Institute at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.

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