A generous symphony : Hans Urs von Balthasar's literary revelations /
Denny, Christopher D. (Christopher Douglas),
A generous symphony : Hans Urs von Balthasar's literary revelations / Hans Urs von Balthasar's literary revelations Christopher D. Denny. - Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2016. - xii, 313 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-301) and index.
Introduction: a theology of literature as Christian revelation -- 1. A literary-historical reading of Hans Urs von Balthasar and his sources -- 2. "Only in the West": Christian foreshadowings in ancient Greece -- 3. Myth or philosophy? Defending literature's preeminence -- 4. Dante and the eschatological limits of literature -- 5. The theater of reconciliation in Shakespeare and Calderón -- 6. The rise of Promethean salvation in German Romanticism -- 7. After the fall of Christendom: children, celibates, and other idiots.
9781451487954 (hardback) 1451487959 (hardback) 9781506418933 (electronic bk.) 1506418937 (electronic bk.)
Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 1905-1988.
Christianity and literature.
Revelation--Christianity.
BX4705.B16 / D46 2016
A generous symphony : Hans Urs von Balthasar's literary revelations / Hans Urs von Balthasar's literary revelations Christopher D. Denny. - Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2016. - xii, 313 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-301) and index.
Introduction: a theology of literature as Christian revelation -- 1. A literary-historical reading of Hans Urs von Balthasar and his sources -- 2. "Only in the West": Christian foreshadowings in ancient Greece -- 3. Myth or philosophy? Defending literature's preeminence -- 4. Dante and the eschatological limits of literature -- 5. The theater of reconciliation in Shakespeare and Calderón -- 6. The rise of Promethean salvation in German Romanticism -- 7. After the fall of Christendom: children, celibates, and other idiots.
9781451487954 (hardback) 1451487959 (hardback) 9781506418933 (electronic bk.) 1506418937 (electronic bk.)
Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 1905-1988.
Christianity and literature.
Revelation--Christianity.
BX4705.B16 / D46 2016