The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness Von Balthasar’s Christocentric Philosophical Anthropology

The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness begins by providing the first comprehensive account of the model of human holiness developed by the leading theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. In so doing, the book also provides the first detailed explication of his Christocentric philosophical anthropology. P...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harrison, Victoria S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2000, 2000
Edition:1st ed. 2000
Series:Studies in Philosophy and Religion
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Current Scholarship
  • 1.2 A Brief Overview of von Balthasar’s Life and Thought
  • 1.3 The Aims and Structure of this Study
  • ONE: VON BALTHASAR’S CONCEPTION OF HUMAN HOLINESS
  • 2 The Role of Prayer in von Balthasar’s Christocentric Philosophical Anthropology
  • 3 On Being Holy
  • TWO: AN INTERNALIST INTERPRETATION OF VON BALTHASAR’S PHILOSOPHY
  • 4 Human Holiness, Theology and Science
  • 5 An Internalist Epistemology
  • THREE: HUMAN HOLINESS AS APOLOGIA
  • 6 Human Holiness as Religious Proof
  • 7 Knowledge, Freedom and Pluralism
  • Appendix: Von Balthasar’s Ideal Theology