Mysterium Paschale

Balthasar, Hans Urs von

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“…It is only by being dead and yet overcoming death that Christ is able to plant that 'manifesto of eternal life'. 9 It is only by being dead that Christ's work on the cross can be completed. It is only by being dead that Christ can descend to the dead, to be with the dead in their being dead.…”

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Behold, the human being: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s theology of the Paschal Triduum and the self in dementia

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Stevens

2023

Theology

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This article explores the theological resources within the thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar that may be of use to Christians as they consider or face the changing nature of the experience of self following a dementia diagnosis. It takes Balthasar’s ideas about the dying and then dead Jesus being the gradual and then total alienation of Father from Son as a model for how dementia can alienate a person from their sense of self. This article does not offer solutions as such but finds hope in the message of Easter that humans are re-membered.

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“…sharing in such solitude: being dead with and dead God'. 10 Even in death and abandonment, Christ is sharing experientially with creation and with his creatures.…”

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Behold, the human being: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s theology of the Paschal Triduum and the self in dementia

James¹,

Stevens

2023

Theology

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“…Church, has "no monopoly here." 62 Each human being, Balthasar believes, is beckoned, following a "personal encounter with the living Christ," 63 to say "Yes" to the performance of the Christ-event, and, in doing so, to become a co-actor with Jesus on the world stage, performing his liberating truth of kenotic love from below. 64…”

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Christ as performance

Havenga

2021

STJ

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This essay will explore Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Christology as performance from below. It will begin by introducing Balthasar’s theodramatic project as presented in his five-volume work Theo-drama. Here, it will be shown how Balthasar engages with and uses the conceptual resources of drama and the theatre to develop a theological dramatic theory with the performance of Christ at its very centre. This will be followed by an investigation into Balthasar’s dramatic Christology and what he saw as the re-performance of the Christ-drama on the world stage. The essay will then conclude with a few brief remarks on the continued relevance of Balthasar’s dramatic Christology, especially for those interested in doing – and performing – theology from below.

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“…120 Balthasar's proposals here are in dialogue with Barth's KD IV/1, wherein Balthasar read that the self-emptying and abasement of Christ in time is neither a divestment nor a denial of immutability but a confirmation of the Son's eternal Godhead. 121 Barth's account of the agapic, self-denying, and gracious inter-triune love gives a hint of how Barth might think the abasement of the Son ad extra reflects his eternal being. Balthasar radicalises these insights.…”

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Theology and Economy ‘after’ Barth

Michelson

2023

Modern Theology

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The relation of theology and economy is a perennial theological challenge. Many contemporary theologians' understanding of this challenge is shaped by Karl Barth's attempt to resolve a set of tensions problematising this relation inherited from figures like Kant and Feuerbach. Barth ‘identified’ God's decision to be God with God's decision to be human. Further, he inconsistently but insistently claimed that the ‘form’ in which God reveals Godself in the person of Jesus somewhat isomorphically corresponds to God in Godself. The brilliance and yet instability of Barth's approach spawned a number of construals of theology and economy which depart from him in significant ways. I label these contemporary trajectories the post‐Barthian temptation, Barthian revisionism, Barthian Balthasarianism, and Barthian catholicism and critically evaluate them, suggesting that Barthian catholicism is the most promising.

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Mysterium Paschale

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Behold, the human being: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s theology of the Paschal Triduum and the self in dementia

Behold, the human being: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s theology of the Paschal Triduum and the self in dementia

Christ as performance

Theology and Economy ‘after’ Barth

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